“Bunny Is A Rider” by Caroline Polachek

"Bunny Is a Rider" arrived in July 2021 through Perpetual Novice as the first single from Caroline Polachek's Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, and she pitched it as "a summer jam about being unavailable." She wrote and co-produced it with her frequent collaborator Danny L Harle, and she keeps Bunny deliberately hard to pin down: slippery, out of reach, maybe a fantasy, maybe just an attitude, a part anyone can play for as long as the song runs.

Harle doesn't just sit behind the board; he lays down a scorching bass line, and his baby daughter, credited as Nico Harle, makes her first vocal cameo. Geoff Swan mixed. The Fader filed it under avant-pop and heard it as gently groovy, and Pitchfork went further, naming it the best song of 2021.

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