Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek. It was released on February 14, 2023, by Polachek's imprint Perpetual Novice. Polachek produced most of the album alongside Danny L Harle.
The album received widespread acclaim from critics, with several calling it Polachek's best work and acclaiming its experimentation. It charted in Belgium, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. It received a nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 66th Grammy Awards.
It was supported by the singles "Bunny Is a Rider", "Billions", "Sunset", "Welcome to My Island", "Blood and Butter" and "Smoke".
A reissue of the album, subtitled Everasking Edition, was released on February 14, 2024, the standard edition's first anniversary. It was supported by the singles "Dang" and a new version of "Butterfly Net" featuring Weyes Blood.
“Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” is my favorite album of 2023. It is a collection of near perfect pop songs. Though pop music is not realy my genre and is often too shallow and commercial, this album has enough depth in lyrics, composition, performance and production to make me love it.
Hopedrunk Everasking - did anyone else hear the smoke alarm that needs new batteries?
Other than that I really enjoyed this album. Something different but familiar enough to feel comfortable.
Interesting album with some pretty diverse sounds. Definitely sounds like its from this century with some different styles from an artist I hadn’t heard of before. Enjoyable!
Pop just doesn’t have the same stadium busting sounds as it used to. This is still pretty good but it’s softer in tone with modern production of flowing beats. Polachek has a good voice and listening to this album wasn’t hard at all. I could see how younger people would enjoy this if this is what pop is limited to. 6.0/10
I remember this album getting a lot of hype a couple of years ago, it never clicked with my at the time, listening back now I agree this is really good. One to be added to a list of great new music, but just not my personal taste for a frequent rotation.
Very much within a particular strata of recent alternative pop. This was good but a little over-produced for me. Lyrically clever but I was ended up without much sense of anything being said.
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