Earlier this year, Polachek also shared her single ‘ Billions‘, dropped a new rework of ‘ Long Road Home‘ (her collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never), collaborated with Charli XCX and Christine & The Queens for ‘ New Shapes‘, Flume on ‘ Sirens‘ and released Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare– a stunning aria / classical vocal performance composed by Oliver Leith and featured in the critically-acclaimed Last Days opera, which premiered at The Royal Opera House of London in October. The title ‘ Welcome To My Island‘ has appeared before in Caroline’s Instagram captions as well as discreetly embedded in her latest music video for ‘ Sunset‘. The chorus lyric itself, “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” rides the obsessive, unhinged edge between maniacal ego and headless euphoria Valentine’s day will be hitting differently in 2023. Cook, and Jim E-Stack, ‘ Welcome To My Island‘ is Polachek’s voice at both its most wild and most mechanical, grounded by lyrical wit and anthemic hooks.
Produced by Dan Nigro, (‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings’, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour), Polachek, Danny L Harle, A. LISTEN TO ‘WELCOME TO MY ISLAND’ HERE & PRE-SAVE DIWTTIY HERE. “One of the most captivating records of the year”īuilding off another year of immense critical fanfare and legendary live shows across the world, today Caroline Polachek stakes her claim as a cultural force and pop innovator with the announcement of her new album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You, slated for digital release on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2023. With this news comes Polachek’s statement single, ‘ Welcome To My Island‘ , from which the album name was born. “Playful experimentalism and dazzling vocals” “Superbly put-together pop record… that hits like a southpaw’s hook” “If there is a new lane for artists like Polachek today, it’s one she had a hand in paving” Of many other musicians in the commercial public sphere “ “ Polachek’s constant evolutionary drive within indie, pop and electronica is unlike that “Love songs about the moment of surrender, the pain preceding it, and the euphoria after” Might have slipped loose from the circuits of a synthesiser” “ In its highest register, Caroline Polachek’s voice sounds like it Retrieved November 4, 2022.“One of the greatest musicians of our time” ^ "Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100".^ "Billions – Single by Caroline Polachek"."Caroline Polachek Surrenders to the Sublime on Esoteric Single 'Billions' ". ^ "Caroline Polachek shares new song "Billions" "."CAROLINE POLACHEK CONTEMPLATES THE OVERABUNDANCE OF THE WORLD ON "BILLIONS" ". ^ Willems, Jasper (September 9, 2022).
^ "After a Year Without Crowds, Caroline Polachek Takes the Stage"."The Best Progressive Pop Music of 2022". ^ Pitchfork Staff (December 13, 2022)." Long Road Home" (featuring Oneohtrix Point Never) - 3:44Ĭharts Chart performance for "Billions".Kat Bouza from Rolling Stone described "Billions" as "a trip-hop inspired, hallucinogenic epic that finds the songwriter expanding upon the inventive production style perfected on her critically acclaimed 2019 album, Pang." Year-end lists Year-end lists for "Billions" The Fader 's Jordan Daville wrote that, with "Billions", Harle and Polachek created "a kind of divine symmetry from its elements, channeling Pure Moods-era new age into something utterly splendid". Pitchfork named the song a 'Best New Track', and in a review contributor Gio Santiago wrote that "Billions" is "a lucent pathway towards a new era for the pop auteur".
The song was met with widespread critical acclaim. "wanted something that captured the afterglow of a reopening." Īs the B-side of the single, Polachek released a reworked version of "Long Road Home", her collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never from his 2020 album Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. The beat and the images became the song "Billions". One day, Danny L Harle sent her a beat that he'd written, and Polachek heard a melody out of nowhere, oceanic and potent, and started jotting down psychedelic images: a headless angel, an overflowing cup, a pearl inside an oyster. Polachek played the song live on her Heart is Unbreaking US tour in late 2021, and on several fall 2021 festival dates before the single was officially released.Ī September 2021 New Yorker profile on Polachek explained the song's backstory as follows: It was released on Februas the second single from Polachek's fourth album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (2023). " Billions" is a song by American singer-songwriter and record producer Caroline Polachek.
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