Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, and second under her given name. It was released on February 14, 2023, by Sony Music, The Orchard, and Polachek’s imprint Perpetual Novice. The album is supported by the singles “Bunny Is a Rider”, “Billions”, “Sunset”, “Welcome To My Island”, and “Blood and Butter”. The cover art was shot by Aidan Zamiri. Just a little back story about Caroline Polachek early life. Polachek was born in Manhattan, New York City, on June 20, 1985, to James Montel Polachek (1944–2020), an Ashkenazi Jewish financial markets analyst and trained classical musician, and Elizabeth Allan. Her family relocated to Tokyo, Japan, where she lived between the ages of one and six, and later settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where Polachek started singing choir in the third grade. She was a synthesizer player from a young age as her father gifted her a Yamaha keyboard to dissuade her from being disruptive on the piano. Polachek has worked extensively with other artists, collaborating with Blood Orange, Fischerspooner, Sbtrkt, Christine and the Queens, Charli XCX, Grimes, and the British music collective PC Music, as well as writing material for Beyonce (“No Angel”) and Travis Scott.
Polachek’s influences have been described as “eclectic” by music critics. When asked about her earliest musical influence by Interview, she responded that it was “probably Enya.” Growing up in Japan until the age of six, she was exposed to traditional Japanese songs and anime themes, which she says were influential on her musical education; she stated that Japanese singing consists of “a lot of minor and pentatonic [tonality], with really angular melodies that I think really stuck in my subconscious”.
