With those liquid, reactive vocals, Caroline Polachek is so sublime at selling a line that whatever “Bunny Is a Rider” turns out to mean, you know you’re on board from the lyric’s first flinching, suggestive rendition. Her latest collaboration with Danny L Harle concerns the taming of this elusive, wounded creature, learning to trust again – “heart is unbreaking but don’t drop my name” – amid a febrile bassline, a tail-shake of glassy percussion and a whistled refrain to lure you into giving chase.
Caroline Polachek released ‘Bunny Is A Rider’: an instant earworm and a song that ended up on the vast majority of critics’ and publications’ end of year lists . Throughout 2022 Polachek will be appearing as support on Dua Lipa’s The Future Nostalgia Tour in the US, and at a number of summer festivals in Europe. So, we’re hoping this will be the opportune time for the alt-pop singer-songwriter to release a new full length LP.
Whether as the vocalist for Chairlift or in her solo work, Caroline Polachek is truly singular. Nobody sounds like Polachek, and she has never sounded more vibrant or potent than on her sophomore record, “Desire, I Want to Turn Into You”. She opens the album with an otherworldly wail with “Welcome To My Island,” dances with twirling flamenco guitars on “Sunset,” and darts through wiry and minimalist art pop on “Bunny Is a Rider.”
All along, she casts herself as desire incarnate, crafting a series of decadent fantasies traced with dream-like lyricism. There is a hunger within these tracks, an incorrigible drive to sample new sounds, try on new aesthetics, and subsume them all within Polachek’s glassy avant pop.
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