Caroline Polachek has dropped off another single, following up February’s “Billions” with the Sega Bodega co-production “Sunset”. She says:
“Resolution is so rare in life, but music is unnaturally full of it. A sunset is the biggest pop cliche ever, because it’s a perfect resolution. Ennio Morricone passed away a few months before Salvador (Sega Bodega) and I started “Sunset”, and the folkloric, epic tone of the spaghetti western sunset played on my mind. I wanted an operatic chorus with no lyrics, but salted with some very real disillusionment: past all the distraction, dead ends, and false promises of the world is the love we too often take for granted. That’s my sunset.”
Anyone lucky enough to have caught Polachek live in the last year or so will immediately recognise the song as one of the stand-outs of her new material. Riven with trills of Spanish guitar and a featherlight beat, “Sunset” finds Polachek delivering one of her most delicately dextrous vocal performance yet, tripping through lessons while encouraging the energy of resolution to infuse her body and soul.
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She’ll be in Europe in February:
Feb 10 – Brighton, UK @ CHALK
Feb 11 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Beckett Students Union
Feb 12 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
Feb 14 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
Feb 15 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
Feb 16 – Bristol, UK @ The Marble Factory
Feb 18 – Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel
Feb 20 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Feb 22 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys
Feb 23 – Hamburg, DE @ Mojo Club
Feb 24 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Feb 25 – Cologne, DE @ Die Kantine
Feb 27 – Antwerp, BE @ Trix
