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Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek releases new solo album
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 20 January 2017
When Chairlift announced their split last year, they also confirmed that frontwoman Caroline Polachek would be getting on with her solo career. Having released one album as Romana Lisa already, she’s now back under the name CEP, with an album available as a free download, ‘Drawing The Target Around The Arrow’.
On the decision to just sling it out into the world, she explains to The Creative Review: “The more I thought about it, the more I became aware that so much advertising language now is just telling people what to do. You’re on the subway, it’ll say, ‘Do this. Don’t do this’. Like the Nike slogan, ‘Just do it’. Being surrounded by that kind of language is really oppressive. I was thinking to myself, ‘Well if this music will be useful to people, they’re gonna hear the use for it right away. They’re gonna just do it. They’re just gonna use it'”.
“I also realised that the things I use it for might not be what other people use it for”, she continues. “I didn’t want to necessarily plant the seed that this is a relaxing record. Some people might use it for weight lifting. I wanted to leave the door open. Ideally it would be appropriated in all sorts of ways… used by physical therapists and also under a really hard rap verse. That would be ideal”.
Check out her full interview and download the album here.
