The debut album of Caroline Polachek’s former alias, Ramona Lisa, is set for vinyl
An early insight into Polachek as a solo artist.
Perpetual Notice will release Ramona Lisa’s 2014 debut album on vinyl.
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An early solo alias for Caroline Polachek, Ramona Lisa’s era began whilst she was still a member of the indie-pop duo Chairlift. Arcadia was created throughout a year on tour and entirely recorded on a laptop using no external instruments or microphones.
The album has an intimate quality, due in part to its unorthodox recording locations–hotel closets, airport gates and spare dressings rooms. Hear the lo-fi sound of Arcadia below.
“For Ramona Lisa, instead of being a social process it was incredibly personal and introverted. The entire making of record happened on the laptop in a very two-dimensional way,” explained Polachek in a 2014 interview with FACT.
“It didn’t even feel like part of the real world to me when I was making it—no one really knew what I was working on, and in many ways it didn’t really seem real, it seemed like this dream world I kept going into on my own. It was like a home away from home for me while I was touring, like a video game I would play all the time by myself.”
Arcadia remains Polachek’s sole album under the Ramona Lisa moniker.
You can pre-order Arcadia on black or sea blue vinyl now, ahead of its July 14 release.
Tracklist:
2. Backwards and Upwards
3. Getaway Ride
4. Avenues
5. Lady’s Got Gills
6. Hissing Pipes At Dawn
7. Dominic
8. Reprise
9. Izzit True What They Tell Me
10. Wing Of The Parapet
11. I Love Our World
