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Pang. (2019) Drawing the Target Around the Arrow is the debut album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, her only one under the name CEP. It is Polachek's first release since the breakup of her band Chairlift just one month prior.
- 2012–2016
- Caroline Polachek
- January 19, 2017
27. Jan. 2017 · CEP (Caroline Elizabeth Polachek) - Drawing The Target Around The Arrow is out NOW via Pannonica Records. Entirely made using sine waves, this is Polachek's first instrumental album, and is a 60 minute collection of meditative, minimal pieces made in the background of her other projects from 2013-2016. Coming weeks after the announce ...
Drawing the Target Around the Arrow is the second studio album by American producer Caroline Polachek, released under the name CEP (her initials). It is Pola...
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is the sophomore studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, under the name CEP. The project was released on January 19, 2017 by Pannonica as a surprise album.
This was Polachek's first release since the breakup of her band Chairlift just one month prior.
The album was announced by a tweet on January 18, and the album was released as a free download the next day. The album was promoted with a concert at National Sawdust with a twelve-person vocal choir.
differs from Polachek's earlier work in that it consists solely of minimal instrumental tracks. Polachek crafted the album about of raw sine waves, as she has been growing bored of how "genre-specific" music had become and wanted to strip it down to its basic parts. She also liked the idea of creating "useful" music to wake up or do work to.
The album's title comes from 18th century Jewish Lithuanian preacher Dubno maggid, explaining how he comes up with his fables. As Polachek summarized, "It's about honoring your impulses and working with what you have in front of you."
Thea Ballard of Pitchfork called the composition "generally unobtrusive, and the individual tracks often run together" and that "perhaps the most satisfying aspect of this release is its definitively non-linguistic form of expression".
Wochen nach der Ankündigung der Trennung von Chairlift ist „Drawing The Target Around The Arrow“ eine unerwartete Abkehr von den melodischen Gesängen, die zu ihrem Markenzeichen geworden sind. In einem Interview mit The Creative Independent spricht Caroline Polachek davon, diese Platte eher für den „functional use“ als für den ...
30. Jan. 2017 · Drawing the Target Around the Arrow. CEP. 2017. 7.0. By Thea Ballard. Genre: Experimental. Label: Panonica. Reviewed: January 30, 2017. Caroline Polachek, of the recently disbanded...
8. Feb. 2024 · Drawing the Target Around the Arrow has so many layers of beauty to it. It's performed by the gorgeous Caroline Polachek under an alter ego. The name of this album is heavenly. The music and soundscapes can actually make for pleasant background music, maybe in a doctor's waiting room or in the backrooms.
