This album comes at a particularly breathless point in Polachek's career, a rise that has been slow but basically constant for over 15 years. It is a song that treats the rabbit, the wabbit, the bunny at the edge of the woods as a come hither: I dare you.

This is 'Bunny is a Rider.' A perfect pop song on a record about pop music and its promises. Or a girl who is a lady who is not tethered to a corporeal form. Or a girl standing in front of Plato's Cave, which is actually a Rainforest Café, in a Vivienne Westwood cardigan, being like, 'Dirty like it's Earth Day!' Or a girl who is a lady. It is as if she is a bunny in the shape of a girl. Not so much of a rabbit or even a 'wabbit' but a bunny. When a rabbit appears three songs into Caroline Polachek's sophomore album under her own name, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, it is a wink, a signifier, a seduction. Think about it: Alice in Wonderland by way of Jefferson Airplane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Elmer Fudd.

If for some reason you see a rabbit on the edge of the forest and want to follow it - don't. Nothing good comes from chasing a rabbit. A rabbit standing at the edge of the forest is an omen.

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