Song · Caroline Polachek
“Sunset” by Caroline Polachek
From the album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (2023)
“Sunset” by Caroline Polachek appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2023. It was first released in 2023 on the album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. Its best result is #68 on the WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2023. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #315 indie & aaa song of 2023 and #6,531 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Sunset" was one of the singles that paved the way for Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek's fourth album, landing at the end of January 2023, a fortnight before the record came out on her own Perpetual Novice imprint. She wrote it with Caroline Ailin and Salvador Navarrete, sings lead, and produced it with Sega Bodega; Marc Fernández and Samuel Organ play guitar, and Geoff Swan mixed.
Critics met the album with wide acclaim, several calling it the best thing she had made and cheering its appetite for experiment, and it charted from New Zealand to the UK and the US. It went on to draw a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 75 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 71 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2023 | 89 |
| 2023 | 68 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2023 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 873 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
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