Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (Copper Vinyl) Vinyl LP

Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is a maximalist art-pop odyssey that formally arrived on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2023, and finds her collapsing classical training, club-ready production, and pastoral oddities into a single, shape-shifting record. Coaxed drum-and-bass pulses and bagpipe-tinged flourishes to collaborations that include Grimes and Dido, the album stitches together trip-hop, dembow, flamenco and early-2000s pop gloss while remaining unmistakably Polachekian in its vocal drama. Lead singles like “Bunny Is a Rider” and “Billions” sit alongside quieter, uncanny moments such as “Crude Drawing of an Angel,” making desire feel at once ecstatic and disorienting — a throughline critics praised as her most ambitious, consistent work to date. The record’s lush production and adventurous arrangements earned broad acclaim and industry notice (including a Grammy nod for engineering), cementing it as one of 2023’s defining pop statements.