“Welcome to My Island” is the fourth single of Caroline Polachek's second studio album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, and was released on December 5, 2022. The trippy video, co-directed by Polachek and Matt Copson, sees Polachek fight off sperm, captured inside a cardboard box, spitting lava like a volcano, and engaging in some other head-spinning activities on a surreal romp around a strange paradise.
“Wrote this song with Dan Nigro back in 2018 when I was still making Pang. It obviously didn’t belong there though, it was too bratty and stupid (if you know me you know that‘s a compliment) but i knew it was the start of something new. And now, as track one on Desire, I Want To Turn Into You, it literally is. Turns out the album title was hiding in there all along. This song was a puzzle, it went through a million versions to arrive at maximum brat mode. To be the worthy soundtrack for an epic walk of shame, where you have mascara all over your face as the sun is coming up and you own the fucking world and haven’t yet discovered you’ve lost your house keys. At one point i decided chorus three needed to be interrupted by a guitar solo, sang the melody to Dan, and he handed me his guitar. I said “you know i can’t play guitar” and he said “whatever just figure it out” and made a devilish smile. So that’s me playing the dogshit guitar solo, i still can’t play guitar.“
– Caroline Polachek, Instagram
