Ramona Lisa - Arcadia (2014)

Ramona Lisa is the current alias of Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. Her new album Arcadia is Polachek’s first self-produced solo record and the first release by Pannonica, part of the Bella Union family. Completely composed in MIDI, it is a concept album of love songs that are nature allegories, and vice versa, which Polachek calls "Pastoral Electronic Music".

The making of Arcadia was a year¬long process that began and ended in an empty studio in Rome's Villa Medici and while on tour with her band, Chairlift. The record was made entirely on a laptop without instruments or external microphones - all vocals were sung directly into the computer, making use of hotel closets, quiet airport gates, and spare dressing rooms.

Although the album was created on a laptop, the result is a lush and uncannily tangible world of warm textures, reminiscent of analog tape processes rather than a hard drive. Virtual oboes and organs interweave with synthetic insects and quivering sine waves, animated by Polachek's vocal at it's most delirious and intimate yet.

TRACKLIST
01 Arcadia
02 Backwards and Upwards
03 Getaway Ride (Cha Cha Cha)
04 Avenues
05 Lady's Got Gills
06 Hissing Pipes at Dawn (They're Playing Our Song)
07 Dominic
08 Reprise
09 Izzit True What They Tell Me
10 Wing of the Parapet
11 I Love Our World