Over the past few weeks, our most active record reviewers have had the task of choosing their 5 favorite recordings of 2023, and here they are. This selection is unique and quite different of all you can find on the web or through traditional medias.
Caroline Polachek is perhaps the most surprising pop artist of recent years. Her album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You took a while to open up to me. When I first listened to it when it came out in February, I didn’t see what I wanted…but I was looking at it wrong. When I came back to it, I discovered my favorite album of the year. The American singer-songwriter and producer handles pop in a calculated, resolutely modern way. With an alchemist’s precision, she instills colors, textures, tastes, smells and auras. The result is a sensory experience that overflows on all sides. Each song is different, a world in itself with its own images and symbols. Polachek is advancing in an increasingly uncharted indie groove, and she’s got all the makings of a pop star: the voice, the mystery, the theatricality, the ambition… Plus the poetry! It’s vibrant, it’s colorful, it’s rejuvenating. And it’s overflowing. Every time I go back, I notice something, I discover something. It’s all worth it.
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