★★★★★ Full of toe-curling lust and bratty flirtation, Caroline Polachek's Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is a recipe for full-body obsession with another person ✒️ katiesol
The instrumentation is as varied and mind-boggling as you could hope for: everything from bagpipes , a Bulgarian choir, zesty orchestra hits and samples of Polachek’s own voice that howls like a Celtic war-cry and swoons like a dive. There are shades of Imogen Heap and the kind of precision you find on an Everything But The Girl record.
Working with long-time collaborator Danny L Harle, Polachek has created a sound that is very much her own, the reverbs and acute drum’n’bass as considered and relevant as every other element of each song. “I Believe”, a gorgeously mournful dance track, is a tribute to SOPHIE: it doesn’t go as far as the pots-and-pans beats that SOPHIE coined but it marries synthetic dance and emotion in a way that few artists but SOPHIE herself have managed.
Of course the woman who covered – brilliantly – The Corrs’ “Breathless” has invited Dido onto her record, pairing her with Grimes on “Fly To You”. On paper, this collaboration sounds kooky to the point of irritating: in practice, the three voices sound like three different ages of woman, sisterly almost.
Similarly, some of the singles released in the run up felt baffling: how could the suave, thumping “Bunny Is A Rider” sit on the same record as “Sunset”, which sounds like walking past a man playing guitar on a Spanish riviera? But somehow, putting these songs next to each other in context works. It’s a stark reminder to trust Caroline Polachek: a pop auteur and a philosophical thinker, she knows what she’s doing.
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