Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Caroline Polachek knows how to create a great earworm – and well, she's hardly lacking experience. With a career spanning nearly two decades, first in Chairlift, and in more recent years as a solo artist, she's had time to experiment, cultivate and nurture a unique sound. "Bunny is a / Bunny is a / Rider / Can't find her", she rhythmically repeats alongside whistles and harmonises on Bunny is a Rider. Who is Bunny? And where is she riding to? It hardly matters; the glimpses of insight scattered across the album form a compelling energy nonetheless.

This album is littered with strangely beautiful imagery: "Pity the mayflies in the swimming pool at dawn" she sings nonchalantly on Pretty in Possible, elsewhere evoking "blood and butter" as a metaphor for desire and need. Polachek, after all, reveals in the album title alone her desire for desire itself – to not simply feel desire, but to be it – and in her unabashed quest she proves unafraid to stretch the boundaries of the surreal. Her vocal delivery characteristically forms a part of the instrumentation. Here it reaches new heights, stretching and searching, reaching fever pitch, fully encapsulating what it means to be possessed by desire in all its rawness.

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is an exciting new milestone for Polachek, leaving us anxiously craving for more of her vision in years to come.

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