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Caroline Polachek

Jul 25, 2023

Caroline Polachek, pop musician with a code-switching pop-pastiche style, returns to KEXP to showcase songs from her newest record. Her music flows seamlessly through genres, styles, decades, and vibes, unifying the experience. They discuss the significance of the opening track as an anthem and explore deep emotional connection and the pain of separation. Caroline Polachek performs an introspective track called 'Sansa' with ethereal music, exploring themes of self-reflection and regret.

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Caroline Polachek's newest album, 'Desire, I Want To Turn Into You,' showcases her encyclopedic knowledge of and love for music by seamlessly blending genres, styles, and decades.

The opening track, 'Welcome to My Island,' influenced the direction of Caroline Polachek's album, inspiring her to create a more beat-driven and experimental sound with abstract and nonlinear lyricism.

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Caroline Polichak's new album showcases a mix of genres and styles

Caroline Polichak returned to KEXP to perform songs from her latest record, 'Desire I Want to Turn Into You.' The album features a variety of genres and styles, showcasing Caroline's encyclopedic knowledge and love for music. The tracks flow seamlessly, with each song offering its own unique flavor. From the over-the-top vocal acrobatics in the opening track 'Welcome to My Island' to the beat-driven and wilder vocal experimentation, Caroline's new album is an exploration of abstraction and nonlinear lyricism.

Introduction

2min

Exploring the Opening Track and Album Concept

4min

Longing and Love

7min

Caroline Polachek continues her live session with the atmospheric 'Sansa'

2min

Emotions, Dreams, and Live Performance with Caroline Polachek

13min

On the show this time, it's the code-switching pop-pastiche of Caroline Polachek.

Caroline Polachek returned to KEXP to play songs from her newest record ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ available on her own imprint “Perpetual Novice.” It opens with some gloriously over-the-top vocal acrobatics. A call across the ocean? A wail of anguish? A howl of desire? Maybe more directly an announcement and a warning - “I AM HERE.”

Without warning she flips the switch and bang! we are into the deadpan “Welcome to my Island” hook, and a beat that could be described as “Don’t you forget about the Soul-Sonic Force.” From there the music flows seamlessly through genres, styles, decades, vibes - anything goes, and Caroline Polachek’s encyclopedic knowledge of (and love for) music, unifies the experience.