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Jan 22, 2016Polachek is also a whip-smart lyricist and on these ten tracks, she reveals a poet’s eye for observing the world around her.
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Jan 21, 2016It’s Chairlift at their most vulnerable, but also at their most jubilant, documenting their burning passions with their most confident sound to date. Most importantly, it’s Chairlift at their most fun.
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Jan 26, 2016Moth is a breezy, immensely enjoyable pop record that provides just the amount of pep that you’ll need to make it through the winter.
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Feb 16, 2016All in all, the result of Chairlift dabbling in the mainstream pop archetype is the duo’s best and most cohesive album to date.
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Feb 1, 2016Though as a collection Moth is both fascinating and fun, demonstrative of what can be achieved when you focus on substance over style.
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Jan 27, 2016Even if said listener is inundated with shiny, R&B-based pop, as is anyone who has access to a radio or the Internet in 2016, there's something about the way Chairlift operate that helps them to stand out just enough to truly shine.
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Jan 26, 2016The most impressive thing about Moth is the way it manages to wrap a more compact frame around Chairlift’s spiraling colors without dulling the final product.
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Jan 21, 2016What’s most interesting is how Wimberly’s clickety but viscous production combines with Polachek’s diamond-sharp falsetto. At times the former can get confused and the latter a little indulgent, but when they nail it--see also No Such Thing, Crying in Public and Polymorphing--they don’t just fly close to pop’s flame, they ignite it.
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Jan 20, 2016With Moths, Chairlift make a strong claim to being one of pop music's best songwriting teams, with the production and vocal chops to bring their compositions fully and vibrantly to life.
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Jan 20, 2016As much as the singles on Something thrilled, it struggled for coherence from song to song. The songs on Moth feel related and extroverted, pulled together by a common purpose. They have a charming asymmetry, they drift in sometimes oblique and irregular patterns. This is pop that wants to show you what it’s made of.
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Jan 22, 2016While not a minimalistic record by any stretch of the imagination, Moth greatly benefits from a toned-down approach that gets to the core of what makes each song work.
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Feb 9, 2016On new album Moth, the follow-up to 2012’s Something, Polachek and Wimberly seem to relish their good luck, layering hooks and beats with a kooky exuberance that was missing last time out.
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Jan 26, 2016Make no mistake, these are all energising pop tunes, but by the time you reach the seventh track, you’re left wondering how many of them you can take in one go.
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Jan 26, 2016This is a record where love, music and love for music come together beautifully.
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Feb 25, 2016Like many pop acts' full-lengths, this is an album of singles.
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Feb 11, 2016A diverse album is a thing to strive for, but trying to temper the optimism of a luminous, mother-of-pearl record like this by repeating tired ideas culled from the last decade of songwriting is not the way to go about it.
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Jan 27, 2016It’s by no means a bad album, but at this stage Chairlift are strictly second division.
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Jan 21, 2016They may have left behind their haunted house roots, which might rub some people off the wrong way, but Chairlift have found themselves creating something far more barmy, bold and exhilarating than ever before.
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Q MagazineJan 20, 2016Their third album is their most developed yet.... What's missing is that sense of real emotion, the euphoria or misery that makes for great pop. [Feb 2016, p.108]
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UncutJan 20, 2016Moth's incessantly hiccuping polysyllabic pop lacks soul and sticking power. [Feb 2016, p.73]
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Jan 25, 2016With the exception of Romeo, inspired by Greek mythology and possessing an irresistible chorus, too much of the album’s hinterland sounds slick but uninspired.
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