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Music Review: Caroline Polachek captures shape-shifting love
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This cover image released by Perpetual Novice shows “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” by Caroline Polachek. - photo by Perpetual Novice via AP
“Desire, I Want To Turn Into You,” Caroline Polachek (Perpetual Novice) Finally giving into the anticipation that has awaited since her 2019 album “Pang," Caroline Polachek greets 2023 with “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You," on a fitting Valentine's Day release date. Between sweeping anthems, folkloric serenades and electronic teases, the artist captures the transcendent and elusive forces of love. Incorporating singles known for their catchy rhythms, like 2021's “Bunny is a Rider" and last summer's “Sunset,” into a swath of eerie meditations, like “Crude Drawing of an Angel" and “Hopedrunk Everasking," Polachek imbues pastoral harmonies and vocal flares into her romanticism, primeval drifting into the future.