Caroline Polachek, Angèle, and SebastiAn’s New Song Navigates a “Love Triangle”

Skip to main contentNewsletterNewsReviewsBest New MusicFeaturesListsColumnsVideoThe collab appears on Angèle’s forthcoming third album InstinctCaroline Polachek and Angèle, photo by Geray MenaAngèle faces a tough decision on her new song “Love Triangle”: how to choose between SebastiAn and Caroline Polachek. The trio’s single, which premiered today on BBC Radio 1, finds Polachek wooing the Belgian star in her native French over a killer electro beat courtesy of the Ed Banger-affiliated producer. Listen—and choose your fighter—below.“Love Triangle” is the latest preview of Angèle’s forthcoming third album, Instinct, which is out on October 16 and also features Justice and Soulwax. It’s her first new LP since 2022’s Nonante-Cinq. Polacheck dropped her latest solo album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You in 2023. She followed it up with a deluxe “Everasking Edition” in 2024, and has also released a few one-off singles since then, including collaborations with Danny L Harle and her almost-name-twins, the English band caroline.Hattie Lindert is an associate staff writer at Pitchfork. A former editor at Resident Advisor, she has written for Rolling Stone, The FACE and The A.V. Club, among others. She’s based in New York, and born and raised in Vermont. ... Read More