![]() But, you know, for me, quite frankly, I think a lot of music that calls itself experimental is very traditional, is using ideas that have been around since the 1950s, 1960s, even the same techniques. And, you know, you use the words experimental and pop as if they're at odds. POLACHEK: You know, I'm such a student of classic pop songwriting, and I, of course, still feel like there's more for me to learn. And the more you listen to it, it, like, has catchiness like a pop song, but it doesn't really have a traditional refrain, right? I mean, was that intentional, or did you go into thinking about this album that you wanted to play with kind of traditional song structure more? PARKS: So I kept playing this song on repeat. But you see it in my eyes, and that is bae. But down in the deep end, I can't be left alone. POLACHEK: (Singing) Time's running out, innit? Pity the mayflies in the swimming pool at dawn. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PRETTY IN POSSIBLE") And I want to play a little bit of a song called "Pretty In Possible." PARKS: The way you kind of walk this line between pop music and experimental music feels so unique on this album. I kind of almost cosplay a bit a version of myself in which I'm much harder to reach than I actually am. POLACHEK: (Laughter) I guess the idea of Bunny in this song is just - it's about being on findable, elusive, playing by your own rules, not picking up the phone. PARKS: I mean, so this song kind of centers on this central character, this Bunny character. I want to turn to the first single off the album "Bunny Is A Rider," which Pitchfork named the best song of 2021 when it was first released. Feels very, like, getting back to, like, our basic human instincts. POLACHEK: You're like, don't mention Tarzan, don't mention Tarzan. PARKS: Well, you mentioned Tarzan, which I feel like - when I was, like, writing notes for what I was going to talk to you about, I. All the sort of different meanings that you could take out of that line kind of hold the entire album within it. Wasn't until a year and a half later that I really started thinking about what those lyrics meant and how there's a sort of paradox built into that phrase. But the chorus lyric, desire, I want to turn into you, came completely intuitively without me thinking about it. A lot of the comedy in this song comes from the kind of code-switching within it. POLACHEK: Obviously, there's a total comedy in it - like, to open the album with this, like, full Tarzan mode and then immediately snap into this quite '80s phone-operator voice. I'm wondering if you can just tell me about that lyric and what it says about the record as a whole. And then it has this line right after - desire, I want to turn into you - which is the title of the album as well. That top section - I keep humming it to myself. PARKS: I want to start with that opening song. Welcome to my island, NPR's WEEKEND EDITION. Thank you so much for having me on today. And the artist behind it, Caroline Polachek, joins us now. PARKS: It's a fantastic pop album that doubles as an experimental look at some of our most basic human instincts - desire, faith, lust. POLACHEK: (Singing) Welcome to my island. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WELCOME TO MY ISLAND") Now joined by two-time Grammy winner, Gene Libbea on bass, Jordan Ramsey on mandolin, and bluegrass banjo legend Pete Wernick on the banjo, Long Road Home is cementing their place in the bluegrass pantheon.Caroline Polachek's new album, "Desire, I Want To Turn Into You" starts with a howl. With the departure of three members, they had the opportunity to stretch out a little bit and make the jump from a "good kid band" to a plain great act. Just one year later, in the summer of 2006, they took first place in the Rockygrass Band Competition. The band was formed out of a jam session of like-minded youngsters at the 2005 Midwinter Bluegrass Festival in Denver, CO. When Long Road Home formed in 2005 some described it as a "teenage super group". It existed from 2003-2007, only 3 years and a few months, but the importance it served surpasses the actual artistic accomplishments that it made. Read Full Bio Long Road Home was Gary Klatt's ambient music project, and became his longest tenured. It existed from 2003-2007, only 3 years and a few months, but the importance it served surpasses the actual artistic accomplishments that it made.Īlso a Bluegrass band based out of Boulder, CO: Long Road Home was Gary Klatt's ambient music project, and became his longest tenured.
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