Ramona Lisa (Caroline Polachek) - “Arcadia” Video

Caroline Polachek has spent nearly a decade leading the great Brooklyn indie-pop group Chairlift, and now she’s stepping out on her own. Polachek has adapted the alter-ego Ramona Lisa for a new solo project, and she’ll release her solo debut Arcadia this spring. Polachek recorded the album in Rome, using only a laptop — composing in MIDI and singing into the computer’s internal mic. She calls the result “pastoral electronic music.” First single “Arcadia,” which opens the album, is an uncanny creeper of a song; it positively drips with ominous atmosphere, and Polachek’s voice floats beautifully above her dark synthetic tones. She co-directed the video with Ross Menuez, and it has her looking straight out of an Argento movie, with horrifying close-up images of cicadas repeating throughout.