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Lift them up

CHAIRLIFT with PETER BJORN AND JOHN at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne) Saturday (April 25), 6 pm. $20. 416-870-8000.


Brooklyn-based electro-pop trio Chairlift have risen from complete obscurity to the peak of indie rock success in just seven short months. Their biggest boost came last fall when their dark-yet-bouncy single, Bruises, backed an iPod commercial. Now the band’s supporting Peter Bjorn and John and, later this summer, stadium heavyweights the Killers.

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“We never thought too much about success,” recalls Aaron Pfenning, who shares singing duties with Caroline Polachek. “We just had our heads into what we were doing, trying to make the best thing we could. The music industry is so unpredictable.”

Pfenning does admit to consulting a psychic while passing through West Virginia last November.

“We had a band psychic reading at this place called Psychic Visions by Tina. I wanted to do the crystal ball, but she said it wouldn’t work, so we did a tarot card reading. It was really frightening. We all left and then, like, didn’t speak for an hour.”

He won’t say what she revealed, but watch for psychic references in future Chairlift songs. After all, the art-obsessed band has a habit of rolling with weird shit. Take their perplexing album title, Does You Inspire You (Kanine).

“I was making a collage from a New York Times headline that read ‘Does Your Gym Inspire You?’ I cut off the ‘gym,’ took off the ‘r’ and the question mark and pasted a cat face in the middle.”

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