desire, i want to turn into you

In 2020, she decamped to the idylls of the Mediterraneanblaring 70s and 80s Italo-pop out of a beat-up station wagon with her boyfriend in Rome and staying at the base of Mount Etna in Sicily, marveling at the faceless, tectonic, chaotic energy coming up from below. Inspired by these excursions, the album takes us to breathtaking places, all palm trees and crystalline water, deep red sunsets and smoke-covered volcanoes. Its an aching slow burn that actually reaches its moment of release in I Believe, yet another standout that finds shimmering synths stabbing through the production, with Polacheks falsetto piercing the volcanoes of sound that populate the albums overarching soundscape. 5 things that happened on Friday at Glastonbury, Peter Gabriel at the O2 was no bog-standard greatest hits show, Bruce Springsteen put controversy aside with a magnificent set at Villa Park, The enduring appeal of Not Going Out, TV comedy's biggest dinosaur, Arctic Monkeys unleashed chaos in their dazzling, confusing Glastonbury set, The Chicks: 'We're proud to have been the first to get cancelled', Ken Bruce set up PopMaster TV firm before leaving BBC now radio quiz set to be global brand, Ken Bruce's PopMaster TV is the gloriously old-fashioned quiz that television has been missing, Do not sell or share my personal information. CD. It was released on February 14, 2023, by Sony Music, The Orchard, and Polachek's imprint Perpetual Novice. by Caroline Polachek. Kate Bush whom Polachek is often compared to, much to her chagrin if she walked for the very hip, very downtown American brand Eckhaus Latta and was an '80s baby. And the song feels so deeply primal to me. And so in this song, Grimes, Dido, and I kind of find our different version of that. All Rights Reserved. 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TCIN: 88235067. 12 Songs, 45 minutes But also, at the same time, he wasnt good at living his own life. Welcome To My Island dates back to 2018, and she has performed Smoke live at concerts since early 2020. Still, one sweet line wrestles itself from the stream: I was born to get you home.. Sometimes it feels unrelated to the music at first, but then theres some kind of Aha moment. Fluorescent guitar chords come crashing in, then exit the frame to clear out space for the high-pitched percolating synth that drives the track along. Butterfly Net is maybe the most narrative storyteller moment on the whole album. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It drops February 14th, 2023, and the former Chairlift We ended up getting this incredible Spanish guitarist, Marc Lopez, to play the part. Welcome To My Island. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Harle, the PC Music affiliate who worked as Polacheks main collaborator last time around, returns to co-produce 11 of 12 tracks. Item Number (DPCI): 244-03-4683. At first it felt slight to me, more muted and wispy than I wanted from such a marquee collaboration. The likely next single Fly to You, is a generation-spanning tag team with electro shape-shifter Grimes and Australian singer Dido that pairs a spiraling melody with a rapid-fire drum n bass beat; Hopedrunk Everasking almost sounds like a madrigal, with loads of echo and distant, choir-like voices (all hers, of course); and Billions closes the album with an actual choir on the final chorus, bringing it to an appropriately momentous finale. -- _ 35 1 Caroline Polacheks best album of her career is a transformative pop experience, a passionate, richly melodic odyssey into the darkest corners of love. And then, around the song's midpoint, she starts rapping! Desire is the culmination of wanting and needing and this album is a recipe for full-body obsession with another person. The previously released singles Bunny Is a Rider and Welcome to My Island and are more straightforward pop songs, with big vocal hooks and burbling electronic rhythms; the latter even features her rapping a verse. "Bunny Is A Rider Caroline Polachek. The music happening on the fringes of the whole Neptunes-Britney Spears thing on "Slave 4 U." I definitely leaned into that 19 Jun 2023 20:52:20 The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. An it-girl! CNN . Here's Peter Lynch's Advice Grimes & Pinkpantheress). And she sounds ecstatic. Many alt-pop records feel as nebulous as they sound. Polachek brings us into the throes of a shaky love affair, doling out details in succulent little morsels. WebMusical Artist: Polachek Caroline. On "Pretty in Possible," there is the IV drip of bassline that chases after Polachek's vocals, followed by a click track that kind of gives off a chintzy, '90s, Moloko vibe. Pang had a real sense of identity, a sonic fingerprint steeped in sparkling, ecumenical 80s synth-and-guitar hits, drawing from baroque pop and hyperpop in equal measure. It dissolves into total selflessness, whereas the album opens with total selfishness. The opening, which is this minute-long non-lyrical wail, came out of a feeling of a frustration with the tidiness of lyrics and wanting to just express something kind of more primal and urgent. And chaos. (Some savvy coke rapper can feel free to use that line and immediately be showered with praise by music critics. Polachek cites artists including Massive Attack, SOPHIE, Donna Lewis, Enya, Madonna, The Beach Boys, Timbaland, Suzanne Vega, Ennio Morricone, and Matia Bazar as inspirations, but this broad church only really hints at Desires palette. "Pretty in Possible" This was a song I began writing with Sega Bodega in 2020. It could also mean I want to turn into the object of my desire, which Songs like Bunny Is a Rider, Welcome to My Island and Smoke came onto the plate first and felt more hot-blooded and urgent than anything Id done before. "Butterfly Net" And chaos. On subsequent listens, the tracks beauty has come into full bloom. 20. Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most important music being released throughout the year. It could mean I want to turn into desire itself, that force of will that moves us all through the world. It was written right around a month or two after Ennio Morricone passed away, so I'd been thinking a lot about this epic tone of his work, and about how sunsets are the biggest film clichs in spaghetti westerns. Implicit in the wish in the albums title,I Want to Turn Into You,isthe prospect of losing ones own selfhood. Powered by - Designed with theHueman theme, Meaning of G.I.N.A.S.F.S. by Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga by Peso Pluma, Junior H & Gabito Ballesteros, Meaning of Parade on Cleveland by Young Thug (ft. Drake), Welcome To My Island by Caroline Polachek. A stunning exercise in maximalism, Desire triumphs by way of Polacheks talents as a producer and curator. So we nudge and nudge and nudge, never quite reaching fulfillment, longing until the end. There are headless angels, dead on arrival. "Draw the blinds / Draw the bath," she sings over an aqueous hit from the drum machine. She knows too well that falling in love suffuses you with possibility, makes a boring world briefly beautiful. This song is set in a hotel room in which the word drawing takes on six different meanings. Grimes & Dido)" But the cringe is the point, you see. But tonally it feels like I'm at home base with Smoke. It has links to songs like [2019s] Pang, which, for me, have this windswept feeling of being quite out of control, but are also very soulful and carried by the music. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You also feels like its name, full of toe-curling lust and bratty flirtation. The overflowing of a cup. They all seemed indecipherable at first, almost free-associative, until you listened really closely and then you realized she was singing about having your heart broken or trying to be chill and not sad while receiving a dick pic. WebDesire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, and second under her given name. Its a fucking rush. Each song ended up feeling like its own world rather than part of a bigger thing. There are shades of Imogen Heap and the kind of precision you find on an Everything But The Girl record. I end up referring back to the album key a lot, and evolving it too. It could mean I want to turn into desire itself, that force of will that moves us all through the world. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You also feels like its name, full of toe-curling lust and bratty flirtation. Book Review: Erudite but accessible, Megan Fernandes new book will turn poetry agnostics into fans. I cannot listen to it without sobbing. Desire has its fair share of bombast, but its quieter moments are equally rewarding. This album reminds us why. The American star steps into shoes once filled by Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton. Polachek is no newcomer: She was lead singer and focal point of the group Chairlift, which split in 2017; she wrote songs for Beyonce and Travis Scott; and released a couple of solo albums under alter-egos, presumably while figuring out what the next chapter would look like. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. 16 Jun 2023 20:21:40 I wanted to do something with as little structure as possible where you just enter a song vocally and just flow and there's no discernible verses or choruses. I love getting occasional Instagram tags of people in their Bunny Is a Rider thongs. Hearing these two guests thriving on such a stellar track is nourishing to the soul. Best of all is "Billions," which is perhaps, next to "Bunny," one of the best songs Polachek has written. in all of the segments except for the bridge, are repetitive. 19 Jun 2023 20:52:20 But shes a deeply imaginative songwriter with the vocal range and skill to execute her unusual, intuitive melodies that recall Kate Bush and Bjork but also possibly a Japanese musical influence (her family lived there for several years when she was young). Apple/Screenshot by CNET. And then the third meaning is quite physical: I want to be held by you. Caroline Polachek has shared another new single, and, with it, revealed the title and release date of her next album: The new album is called Desire, I Want to Turn Into You and its out February 14 via Perpetual Novice. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. Rock on, Old Grey Guitarist! And the thing is: Her music is actually good. Billions You feel what she's feeling. TCIN: 88235114. It refuses literal interpretation on purpose. Read on for Polacheks track-by-track guide. Welcome to my island, Polachek greets us, adopting a low, staccato, spoken-word cadence. Universal acclaim based on 246 Ratings. That theres a sense of authority and a sense of passion and also an acknowledgment of either your power to heal or your power to destroy. Item Number (DPCI): 244-03-1150. It imagines itself set in England in the summer, in June. Hear it below and scroll down for the album and single artwork, both featuring photographs by Aidan Zamiri. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The albums production veers from trip-hop to new wave, trance to flamenco, demonstrating an innate understanding of the pop archive in pursuit of a new personal style. Its a cheeky sailboat trip through all these feelings. being just another girl in the city in a sweater. WebDesire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, and second under her given name. When Polachek goes bigger, leans deeper into being a maximalist, things are fraught but also exciting. I was also reading John Berger's book on drawing [2005s Berger on Drawing] and thinking about trace-leaving as a form of drawing, and as an extremely beautiful way of looking at sensuality. At the same time, I was processing the loss of my friend SOPHIE and was thinking about her actually as a form of diva archetype; a lot of our shared taste in music, especially 80s music, kind of lined up with a lot of those attitudes. Its my favorite song on the album, mostly because I got to be so free inside of it. Tagged: Desire I Want to Turn into You . If pop music at its best is the synthesis of the grandest human emotions into bite-sized pieces of saccharine melody, then pop music at its most abrasive and extreme is the filtering of the most minute and overwhelming intersections of human emotion into songs that both rely on and reject traditional notions of structure. Pretty in Possible And it got me thinking about the archetype of the diva vocallyabout how really it's very womanly that its a woman's voice and not a girl's voice. I was listening to a lot of 60s Italian music, and the way they use reverbs as a holder of the voice and space and very minimal arrangements to such incredible effect. Perhaps the crude angel is painter Paul KleesAngelus Novus,the angel of history who, in one famousaccount, looks with horror upon the cumulative wreckage of civilization, the damage wrought in the name of glory and beauty. Desire can be volatile, excruciating, wonderful, and cruelbut above all, it keeps us going. 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