Ramona Lisa - Arcadia

Ramona Lisa is an alias of Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. Her album Arcadia is Polachek’s first self-produced solo record, Arcadia is a concept album of love songs that are nature allegories, and vice versa, which Polachek calls "Pastoral Electronic Music"

The making of Arcadia was a year-long process that began and ended in an empty studio in Rome's Villa Medici and while on tour with her band, Chairlift. The record was made entirely on a laptop without instruments or external microphones - all vocals were sung directly into the computer, making use of hotel closets, quiet airport gates, and spare dressing rooms. Although the album was created on a laptop, the result is a lush and uncannily tangible world of warm textures, reminiscent of analog tape processes rather than a hard drive. Virtual oboes and organs interweave with synthetic insects and quivering sine waves, animated by Polachek's vocals at their most delirious and intimate.