Brooklyn synth-pop trio Chairlift is pleased to announce an upcoming US tour with The Killers. The band has currently been on a tour across North America with YACHT, Sebastian Tellier and Peter, Bjorn and John, and will now join The Killers in support of their forthcoming Columbia Records debut, Does You Inspire You, out today, April 21st.

Following the success of their indie label-released debut and an iPod commercial featuring their song “Bruises,” Chairlift signed to Columbia Records. For their major label debut, Chairlift remixed and mastered Does You Inspire You, while adding two new tracks, “Dixie Gypsy”, and “Le Flying Saucer Hat”, both of which were originally intended for the debut. The band will also be hitting the summer festival circuit, performing at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, All Point West and Lollapalooza. Dates below.

Chairlift On Tour:

Mon 5.4 St Louis, MO – Fox Theatre w/ The Killers
Tues 5.5 Columbus, OH – Lifestyle Communities Pavilion w/ The Killers
Wed 5.6 Cleveland, OH – Time Warner Cable w/ The Killers
Fri 5.8 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center w/ The Killers
Sat 5.9 Wallingford, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena w/ The Killers
Sun 5.10 Brooklyn , NY – The Bell House
Sat 6.6 Baltimore, MD – Rufustival w/ Dirty Projectors
Tue 6.9 Little Rock, AK – The Village w/ MGMT
Thurs 6.11 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival
Thurs 6.18 Los Angeles, CA – Echo w/ Sleepy Sun & The Big Pink
Sat 6.20 Los Angeles, CA – Getty Center/ Getty Museum
Sun 6.21 Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar
Mon 6.22 San Diego, CA – Casbah
Sat 8.1 Jersey City, NJ – All Points West Festival
Sat 8.8 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza

“On their debut album, this Brooklyn trio reveal they’ve got some bite: Singer Caroline Polachek delivers PJ Harvey-worthy tales about coke-addled boyfriends, mice-infested apartments and having sex in a ‘forest full of lungs’ with her sweet, opera-trained voice. The tunes go down smooth, ranging from breezy exercises in Eighties-excess synth pop to country-tinged reveries.” – Rolling Stone

“Besotted with reverb drenched synthetic lushness, they flit from uncanny new-wave caricatures to beguiling heroin country ballads, nodding deeply to David Lynch’s Angelo Badalamenti-scored oeuvre” – SPIN – Top 40 Albums of 2008

“Aesthetics, ecology and intergalactic millinery: welcome to the dawning of the age of Chairlift.” – NME Radar

“…this trio anchors their roots in the same soil that Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush and the Cure cultivated and called home.” – Venus Zine

“Chairlift possess that rare charm that transcends any self-aware genre or calculated scene…the album’s cool temperature is balanced by the uplift of its exalted riffs and melodies – overall, an inspirational debut.” – BUST

“Chairlift’s spooky approach to pop sets them apart from some of their contemporaries.” – Under The Radar “Pleased To Meet You” Artist

Free mp3 Download: Evident Utensil

Brooklyn’s unassuming 80′s-influenced three-piece, Chairlift, is excited to announce the release of its forthcoming debut full-length, Does You Inspire You on Kanine Records on Oct. 28th. The band is currently in the midst of a US tour with ever-endearing psych-weirdo, Ariel Pink in support of its new release-to-be. Tour dates are below.

Intent on making music for haunted houses, Caroline Polachek, Aaron Pfenning, and Patrick Wimberly formed Chairlift in the summer of 2006. Frequenting late-night jazz shows at the strange Broker Inn on the outskirts of Boulder, CO, Chairlift were mystified by its 1980′s faux-gothic architecture. The oak-cabinet aquariums, vacant dancefloors, fake trees, and muffled velveteen booths provided the ideal hypothetical setting for a new breed of pop music. With their backgrounds in fine arts, film and jazz, coupled with a move to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2007, the trio was in danger of succumbing to art-snobbery and pretension. Instead, they started playing shows with fun and thriving experimental pop magicians, like MGMT, Ponytail, Yeasayer and Mixel Pixel. Merging their Colorado roots with their new urban surroundings, Chairlift’s sound developed into a hypnotic, tongue-in-cheek yet uniquely compelling brand of synth-pop. After much trial and error of experimentation, their newest effort has resulted in something more akin to a John Hughes/80′s film soundtrack, though the band is surprisingly unfamiliar with several of the artists thought to be their very influences.

Their first official release, the “Evident Utensil” single – an ode to pencils – personified their quirkiness. NME called it,”a charming pop oddity,”Exclaim! gave it, “immediate cult status,”and RCRDLBL deemed it, “the best single from a Brooklyn band since, like, TV on the Radio or something.” Comparisons have been made to The Knife, Art of Noise, Of Montreal, and Yaz.

Chairlift Tour Dates:
July 29, 2008 TT The Bears [w/Ariel Pink] Boston, Massachusetts
July 30, 2008 Knitting Factory [w/Ariel Pink + Mixel Pixel] New York, New York
July 31, 2008 People’s Center [w/Ariel Pink] New Haven, Connecticut
August 1, 2008 M Room [w/Ariel Pink] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 2, 2008 Sonar [w/Ariel Pink] Baltimore, Maryland
August 3, 2008 Nightlight [w/Ariel Pink] Chapel Hill, North Carolina
August 4, 2008 Eyedrum [w/Ariel Pink] Atlanta, Georgia
August 5, 2008 Ali Baba’s [w/Ariel Pink] Tallahassee, Florida
August 6, 2008 Spanish Moon [w/Ariel Pink] Baton Rouge, Louisiana
August 7, 2008 Walter’s On Washington [w/Ariel Pink] Houston, Texas
August 8, 2008 Hailey’s [w/Ariel Pink] Denton, Texas
August 9, 2008 Mohawk [w/Ariel Pink] Austin, Texas
August 11, 2008 Plush [w/Ariel Pink] Tucson, Arizona
August 12, 2008 The Echo [w/Ariel Pink] Los Angeles, California