Caroline Polachek has shared her distaste for the label ‘feminine artists’, saying: “gender just isn’t a style.”
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In a brand new interview with The Telegraph, the singer – who launched new album ‘Want, I Need To Flip Into You’ again in February – stated that gender isn’t one thing she considers in music she loves.
Kate Bush, Björk and Fiona Apple had been foundational to me, by way of redefining what music might be. However no extra so than Brian Eno, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Radiohead,” she stated.
“What all these artists have in frequent is a really vivid sense of subjectivity. You see the world by means of their eyes, they bring about you into their minds.”
The feedback come after Polachek stated she’s “endlessly fucking aggravated” at followers evaluating her to Kate Bush.
Taking to Twitter again in January, Polachek stated: “Whereas I realise it’s an enormous praise, I’m endlessly fucking aggravated by being informed I’m ‘this era’s Kate Bush’. SHE is our era’s Kate Bush, she is an lively artist who’s topping the charts, and is irreplaceable.”
“I, in the meantime, am this era’s Caroline Polachek,” she added.
Polachek will return to the UK this weekend to headline London’s Large Awake pageant alongside Daniel Avery, Shygirl, Coucou Chloe, Blondeshell, Jockstrap and Pleasure Orbison.
‘Want, I Need To Flip Into You’ was launched on Valentine’s Day (February 14) and follows 2019’s ‘Pang’. In a three-star overview, NME wrote: “It might be unfair to name the album a time capsule of current instances, nonetheless chaotic these are, because it feels just like the uneven assortment may morph into one thing else when revisiting it subsequent week.”
