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Chairlift was an American synth-pop band formed by Caroline Polachek and Aaron Pfenning. They formed the band in 2005 while living in Boulder, Colorado , and Patrick Wimberly joined them when they moved to Brooklyn, New York , in 2007.
The two-person double chair, which for many years was the workhorse of the ski industry, can move roughly 1,200 people per hour at rope speeds of up to 2.5 m/s (8.2 ft/s). [2] The four person detachable chairlift ("high-speed quad") can transport 2,400 people per hour with an average rope speed of 5 m/s (16.4 ft/s). [ 3 ]
A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a haul rope) that is strung between two (or more) terminals over intermediate towers. In contrast to the fixed-grip version, the chairs of a ...
Does You Inspire You received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 16 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Riblet built its first chairlift in 1938 at Mount Hood, Oregon. Byron Riblet died in 1952, but the company boomed with the postwar rise of ski resorts . Skiing gained in popularity, and soon ski lifts became the major part of the Riblet Tramway Company's business.
Something is the second full-length album by American indie band Chairlift in the United States via the Columbia Records on January 24, 2012, [4] and in the United Kingdom via Young Turks on January 23, 2012. [2] The first album since founding member Aaron Pfenning left the band in 2010, Something features production from Dan Carey and Alan ...
In 2005, Pfenning co-founded the band Chairlift [5] [6] in Boulder, Colorado with his then-girlfriend Caroline Polachek while still in college. [7] [8] In 2006, Chairlift relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where the final version of Does You Inspire You was written and produced, and later released on Columbia Records.
Shortly thereafter, Chairlift's song "Bruises" was featured in the September 2008 commercial for the iPod nano, becoming their most widely known and breakout single following the release of their debut album Does You Inspire You. [19] [20] Following Does You Inspire You, Wimberly worked on Chairlift's 2012 album Something (Chairlift album). [21]