The modular group arranged and recorded two covers a year from 2008 to 2013, including songs by Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, the Bangles, and Ace of Base. In 2008, Polachek formed Girl Crisis choir with 12 other female singers including members of Au Revoir Simone and Class Actress. John Cale performing with several guests, including Polachek, in 2017 In December, the song earned the #1 position on Pitchfork's "The 100 Best Songs of 2021".
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She told Crack Magazine that the song was part of a future project. On July 14, 2021, Polachek released the single "Bunny Is a Rider", another collaboration with Harle. In promotion, Polachek released five of the album's remixes as singles, as well as a cover of the Corrs' " Breathless". A remix album titled Standing at the Gate: Remix Collection was released on vinyl on April 16, 2021. The album received critical acclaim and placed on many critics' end of the year lists. Later in July, Polachek released two singles off of the project, titled " Ocean of Tears" and " Parachute", and began to detail her then upcoming album Pang which was released on October 18.
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In a press release for the single, Polachek announced that the single was the beginning of a new project, made mostly in collaboration with PC Music member Danny L Harle.
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In June 2019, Polachek released her debut single under her full name titled " Door". To do this without permission from the artists on display is exploitative and unprofessional", adding "Moogfest, and all other festivals, simply have a responsibility to position inclusivity as normal". She followed up with a statement on Twitter saying "This speaks not to the artists or their music, but to the politics of the festival and self-congratulatory PR. Polachek was scheduled to perform at Moogfest 2018, but she pulled out in December 2017 when the festival advertised a list of female artists performing that year, despite the festival lineup being predominantly male. In January 2017, Polachek released her second solo album, Drawing the Target Around the Arrow, under her initials, CEP. The album artwork was shot by New York photographer Tim Barber. She sang vocals directly into her computer's built in microphone, making use of hotel closets, quiet airport gates, and spare dressing rooms during Chairlift's world tour. I don't think any of the tools that I'm using are particularly new-a lot of the MIDI instruments have been around for 15 years-but the compositions make them sound less electronic, more mysterious." The record was made entirely on Polachek's laptop without instruments or external microphones, except to capture field recordings of the sounds she heard in her surroundings. In an interview with Pitchfork, she described how her time in Rome inspired the sounds of Arcadia, stating: "When I was looking out the window in Rome, I wanted this type of electronic music to feel as organic as what I was seeing. Polachek began writing the album during an artistic residency at the Villa Medici in Rome, Italy. Polachek described the album as "pastoral electronic music". She announced her debut self-produced album as Ramona Lisa, entitled Arcadia, in February 2014. The name originates from a former pseudonym Polachek used on Facebook. Polachek began performing sets under the moniker Ramona Lisa in 2013. She played in a couple of bands in high school and college. Mike Patton once personally walked her into a show at Knitting Factory when her fake ID was rejected. Īs a teenager, Polachek began traveling to New York to attend concerts, which were a mix of post-hardcore emo, DIY punk and jazz shows. You have to trust it, you have to give it space, you have to know when to push, give it air." As a "hyperactive kid", her divorced parents would play Enya at each other's houses in order to calm her senses. Like, you don't always have full control of your instrument. Polachek recounts her early exposure to traditional Japanese songs and anime themes as being influential on her musical education: " a lot of minor and pentatonic, with really angular melodies that I think really stuck in my subconscious." She rode horses growing up: "I learned a lot about rhythm and about voice from that. She was a synth player from a young age as her father gifted her a Yamaha keyboard to dissuade her from being disruptive on the piano. Her family relocated to Tokyo, Japan, where she lived between the ages of one and six, and later settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where Polachek started singing choir in the third grade. Her great-grandfather Arthur Polachek was a Jewish confectioner from the Slovak village Lastomír. Polachek was born in Manhattan, New York City on J to James Montel Polachek (1944-2020), a financial markets analyst and trained classical musician, and Elizabeth Allan.