Trudging dejectedly along the strip in Vegas last January, worrying about the economy and having my rental pos scratched in the casino hotel parking garage, starting a three day visit for my stepson's wedding, we walked by (at least six times!) a three-story Apple display blaring a loop of Chairlift's "Bruises" ("I tried to do handstands for you, I tried to do handstands for you..."), promoting the new iPod Nano and its high calorie colors, bathing the throngs of grimly fascinated tourists, shifty characters, high roller wannabes and the porncard-snapping hawkers in chirpy, guile-free post-age neopop.
Utterly surreal.
The band itself comes for a sort-of homecoming (they formed, and wrote that song, in Boulder) at the Bluebird next weekend. Just interviewed chief lifter Aaron Pfenning, story next Thursday in BW.
And btw, the album is called "Does You Inspire You", and it's brilliant. Textured morsels of digipop impressionism, retro from a long-ago sci-fi fantasy.
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