Chandeliers - Dirty Moves

Chicago's Chandeliers create uplifting, psychedelic, shimmering music using vintage synths, drum machines, MPCs, and traditional rock instruments. The band was formed around an interest in one another's record collections, which continues to influence their brand of unconventional (dance) music. The recordings thus far traverse the musical map and run through an array of styles derived from listening to a lot of 80s Dance, 90s Techno, Electro, Italo Disco, Film+Library Music, Early Electronic, Krautrock, Soul, New Wave, Psych, and more.Over the past few years, Chandeliers have developed an impressive live show that melds electronic and acoustic instruments with video projections and lasers.  Band members Chris Kalis, Dan Jugle, Harry Brenner, and Scott McGaughey are also active members of Chicago groups Bronze, Michael Columbia, Icy Demons, Mandate, and Killer Whales. “The opening 20 seconds of Mr Electric flick between Ed Banger directness and a Kraftwerk-like neon lyricism. The remix of Body Double closes the albumin a furious hustle of Afrobeat drumming and rich Italo disco keyboards. In between, the synths mesh into arpeggios that seem as influenced by the post-punk end of the disco spectrum as Giorgio Moroder" [The Wire]

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