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Calling All Stars

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Poling's solo album is an ambitious affair, extrapolating the dark jazz noir subcurrent in the Suburbs' tightly wound rock into a smart, moody and ironic character study with varied instrumentation (from brass to strings to accordion) and atmospheres. "Dig the World Spot" is insistently catchy in much the same way some of the Suburbs' tunes were, but it gets weirder than that. There's a melodically lovely and tender first-person monster narrative called "Frankenstein," while "I Don't Want to Kill Anymore" is crooned as if it were a smoky night down at Chez Louis. Throughout, Calling All Stars offers such delicious paradoxes of form and function, and adds a solid new chapter to the Suburb's after-life.
IRA ROBBINS

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from Calling All Stars, released April 22, 2014

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Chan Poling Saint Paul, Minnesota

Chan Poling is a Minnesota based pop songwriter/performer and a composer of theatrical and film scores. His main musical pursuits have been The Suburbs and The New Standards.

This is Chan's "solo" page, featuring new songs, outtakes from the archives, and the odds and sods of a life writing and singing songs.
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