Lav's Music Corner

Caroline Polachek is the former frontwoman for indie pop band Chairlift who changed her sights on a more synthetic style of pop music as a solo artist which featured a number of collaborations with artists from around the PC Music landscape. Desire  is Polachek's fourth solo album thought technically only her second under her own name in this phase of her career, following 2019's critical darling Pang . PC Music affiliate Danny L Harle, who worked on much of that album, returns on production for most of the songs on Desire . Review by Lav: Not reviewing Pang  was one of my biggest mistakes as a budding music critic the year it came out. The reasons I ultimately didn't cover it is that I thought it was just okay and in a sea of similarly monotonous coverage I felt like I didn't have much to add. In the years since Polachek has become a massive critical darling and frequent collaborator of a number of other artists whose music I really enjoy. So after liking some of the s...