In the self-serious landscape of today’s art-pop, Caroline Polachek is its foil. The former Chairlift vocalist has been resolving for her own identity since the demise of the cherished indie pop buzz band, and with that have come many different faces to her muse, from sultry dance and R&B sophisticate, cooling the surface of electronic glass, to deconstructing her multitudes within hyperbolistic hyperpop. Desire, I Want To Turn Into Your You, is the most whole of that journey to date where Polachek focuses her powers as a romantic auteur through production-perfect transcendental pop which lusts, loves, longs and grieves in one sitting at maximum capacity. A polymath clinic that satiates past lives with future possibilities in her infinite vocal range, Polachek flexes effortlessly around pop-rock euphoria anthems, flamenco, cinematic breakbeat, and even prove that Corrs cover to be no fluke in tracing part of her sonic geneology back to naughties Europop. In a sense, it’s everything all at once, embodying what it is to become your impulses fully realized.

Highlights: “Welcome to My Island”, “I Believe”, “Billions”

Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is available now on Perpetual Novice.

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