Caroline Polachek returns with atmospheric new single ‘Billions’

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Caroline Polachek has returned with a brand new single – you can watch her video for the atmospheric ‘Billions’ below.The track is the former Chairlift singer’s first solo material since 2021’s ‘Bunny Is A Rider’, while she teamed up with Charli XCX and Christine & the Queens for ‘New Shapes’ late last year.Speaking of the new track, which premiered on BBC Radio 1 this evening (February 9) and was produced by Polachek and Danny L Harle, Polachek said: “The overabundance of this world overwhelms me.

Sometimes it seems like ultimate tragedy, the earth being pillaged and destroyed for it.“Sometimes it seems pre-human, beyond morality, sublime.

I don’t pick sides, I just live here, with you. How does it feel, being so rich?”Watch the ‘Billions’ video and listen to its B-side, a rework of Oneohtrix Point Never‘s 2020 track ‘Long Road Home’, below:When Polachek returned last year with the single ‘Bunny Is A Rider’, it marked her first original music since the release of her 2019 debut solo album ‘Pang’.In between, she shared a number of remixes, covers and features, including a cover of The Corrs‘ ‘Breathless’ and her remix of A.G.

Cook’s ‘Oh Yeah’.Reviewing Polachek’s live show at London’s Roundhouse last October, NME‘s El Hunt wrote: “Tonight’s crowd is undoubtedly one of the loudest to ever fill the Roundhouse; before the encore, its industrial dome shudders with the roar of stamping feet. “It’s visibly overwhelming for Polachek, who places her hands over her heart and smiles back.