Caroline Polachek on Divas, an Acid Trip, and Desire, I Want to Turn Into You | Pitchfork
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Caroline Polachek, onetime New Yorker, accepts the inevitability of languishing in line. Four parties back in the queue outside Veselka, the perma-busy Ukrainian diner in the East Village, the 37-year-old singer-songwriter seems unrushed as we wait for a table at the peak of lunchtime calamity. It’s a sunny Friday in March, and Polachek—who now splits her time between Los Angeles and London—is in town to play The Tonight Show, a breathless solo performance that appears to take place in the black void from Under the Skin. But back in the city, she’s just another girl in an Online Ceramics sweatshirt.
Fresh off spectating fashion weeks in Europe, Polachek expresses an admiration for the city’s ever-changing sense of style as we people-watch outside. Perhaps because she no longer lives here—and …
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