Caroline Polachek is growing into the solo artist she has always aspired to since the end of Chairlift in 2017.

On her major record release on Columbia October 18, Polachek shows off her new self on the much anticipated “Pang.”

The ex-Colorado alum exudes playful confidence in her latest video for “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings” with a character that is part cowgirl, part Catholic schoolgirl.

Caroline chimes in on her mood with the new material:

“The song is about being painfully far away from someone you’re crazy about but still trying to keep your cool, which as everyone knows is a private kind of hell. I was thinking about the watercolor scenes in Ren and Stimpy where they’d depict the inside of their minds, and also the sequence in Disney’s Little Mermaid when Ariel’s voice gets pulled out of her…it’s all so psychological. But the thing about personal hell is there’s a lot of time to kill and there’d better be a dance routine…so I played with the shapes from American line dancing and Scottish folk dance – they both have lots of kicking and stomping and hands on hips.” 

Caroline Polachek

Catch Caroline Polachek on tour this month at the dates below.

Dates City Venue
October 24, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Zebulon*
October 27, 2019 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom*
October 30, 2019 London, UK Hoxton Hall*
October 31, 2019 Berlin, DE Burg Schnabel
November 2, 2019 Paris, FR Pitchfork Paris
November 3, 2019 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso
January 1, 2020 San Francisco, CA The Independent
January 18, 2020 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
February 1, 2020 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre

*denotes sold out date