Any good singer who offers half a thought to the well being of her instrument is aware of that hydration is essential for functioning vocal cords. However when Caroline Polachek — whose left-of-center pop music makes nice use of her mellifluous voice — stops for a water break in the course of her Tiny Desk live performance, she does not pull out some crappy plastic bottle. No, she drinks from a chalice.
That looks as if exactly the precise vibe for a efficiency by Polachek. Her songs are stuffed with vivid, extravagant imagery — headless angels, smoke floating over volcanoes, fiery sunsets, mayflies within the swimming pool — and of their manufacturing you may hear every little thing from a youngsters’s choir to bagpipes to glitchy beats. On the Tiny Desk, she maintains that adventurous spirit however works with a dwell band to offer her songs a extra homespun really feel. Collectively, they carry out 4 tracks from Polachek’s arresting, maximalist album Need, I Need To Flip Into You: the propulsive “Fairly In Attainable”; the romantic “Blood and Butter”; “Sundown,” which will get a bunch clap-along from the assembled NPR staffers; and “I Consider,” which Polachek and the band rework from a stuttering synth-driven observe to an acoustic reverie.
Listening to Polachek’s current information, you is likely to be tempted to assume her vocals are drenched in pitch correction software program. Haters might say it is AutoTune, however when she sings dwell and unamplified within the NPR Music workplaces, it is clear that the spectacular vary and management you are listening to is all her.
SET LIST
- “Fairly In Attainable”
- “Blood And Butter”
- “Sundown”
- “I Consider”
MUSICIANS
- Caroline Polachek: vocals
- Matthew Horton: guitar
- Izzy Bolivar: guitar
- Maya Laner: bass, vocals
- Mikey Enright: keys
- Melody English: vocals
- Russell Holzman: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
- Inventive Director: Bob Boilen
- Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Estefania Mitre, Kara Body, Michael Zamora
- Audio Assistant: Neil Tevault
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Suraya Mohamed, Joshua Bryant, Hazel Cills
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
- Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
