Another day, and another glorious track from the new Marika Hackman album due this coming weekend. This one’s entitled “Monday Afternoon”, and unlike a real Monday afternoon, you’ll never want this to end. This one sees woodwind flourishes smoosh together with stellar strings and glorious guitar; it’s pretty tranquil, summery and boasts an abundance of chill.
We Slept At Last is out on 16th February via Dirty Hit Records .
Here is Marika Hackman‘s latest track, ‘In Words’. Taken from her upcoming album “We Slept At Last“, it’s a track that feels like the sound to burning the midnight oil – quiet and subtle, haunted by a plethora of noises from gleaming percussion and electronic stutterings, to the antique organic dust of a big drum thud and the steady jaunt of rhythmic guitar. At the same time, it sounds beset with breezes, Marika’s voice itself seemingly summoning nature and being outdoors; it’s standing on a mountain at night time, but in a dream.
It’s progressive folk music, with sounds that take you back far, far from its ’60s revival, back to actual folk music, Pagan music, a millennium old atmosphere conjured with its collection of instruments and sounds and vocal chords, ancient spirits in modern vessels all lovingly churned together with help from burgeoning producer Charlie Andrew.
“We Slept At Last” is out 16th February.
Marika Hackman has unveiled another cut from her forthcoming debut album, ‘We Slept At Last’.
“Skin” is a collaboration between Marika Hackman and London-based singer Sivu. The song was written by Hackman as a duet for the two artists after she was asked by Sivu to sing on one of his own tracks.
The song was distributed for free on cassette tapes as a Christmas Present to fans on Marika’s Tour at the end of 2013, and was released digitally through SoundCloud a few months later. Lyrically, the song is archetypal Marika Hackman, with disturbing anatomical descriptions and beguiling imagery of love.
Out 16th February, ‘Skin’ links up with ‘Before I Sleep’, ‘Drown’, ‘Ophelia’ and ‘Open Wide’ in previewing the record, which comes produced by Charlie Andrew and follows two EPs. She also managed to become a werewolf and eat Laura Marling – that too. Having already released three stunning EPs, and now she’s readying the release of her debut album, “We Slept At Last”. presenting the premiere of a new track, Skin, the fourth to be unveiled from the album.
The gentle folk tune is a haunting peek into We Slept At Last. The intimacy of Hackman’s words are matched by equally intimate instrumentation, delicate guitar and brooding textures. It’s the most gentle song to come from the album so far and follows the profound Animal Fear, which has been picking up spins
“Skin is, in essence, a love song, although I’m loathe to describe anything I write in that way,” Hackman said of the song’s theme. “I knew it was going to be a duet before I wrote it and it’s the imagined conversation between myself and the object of my desires, then coming to the conclusion that I’m not capable of loving so freely any more, and feeling completely isolated. Chirpy stuff.”
She added that it will act as a kind of “interlude” on the forthcoming the album, which she describes as sonically diverse. “I was worried that it might stick out like a sore thumb but actually I think the record is so diverse anyway that it doesn’t come across like that,” said Hackman. “I love that fact that we lifted lots of the instrumental lines straight off the demo, which I recorded in my bedroom at my parents house, so it feels even more personal in that sense.” The album was crafted with producer Charlie Andrew, who worked on Alt-J‘s An Awesome Wave and the follow-up This Is All Yours, and also produced Matt Corby‘s Resolution.
Alongside the album, Hackman has compiled a 28-page art book with photographer Glen Erler. She’ll be exhibiting those photos as well as debuting the album live in full at Camden’s Cob Gallery. The debut album by the 22-year-old Brit is due to be released on Friday, 13th February via Sony.
Marika Hackman heads out on tour from late March, beginning in Leicester on 23rd March, and carrying on until 15th April in Southampton.
MARCH
23 Leicester The Musician
24 Hull Adelphi
25 Stoke Sugarmill
26 Birmingham The Rainbow
28 Nottingham Bodega
30 Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms
31 London Bush Hall
APRIL
1 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
2 Newcastle Think Tank
3 York Duchess
4 Manchester Night and Day
5 Glasgow King Tuts
9 Bristol Thekla
10 Cardiff St John’s Church
11 Aldershot West End Centre
12 Bedford Esquires
14 Cambridge Portland Arms
15 Southampton Joiners
Marika Hackman releases her Debut Album ‘We Slept At Last’ Happy to announce after singles and EP’s that Marika Hackman’s debut album ‘We Slept At Last’ will be released in February 2015. there are also some instore performances including the new Rough Trade Store in Nottingham. The album comes following a series of hugely revered singles and EP’s over the last year, and has been produced by long-term collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt J, Eugene Mcguinness).
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“Animal Fear” from Marika Hackman’s forthcoming debut album, titled ‘We Slept At Last’. will be released in February 2015. The album comes following a series of hugely revered singles and EP’s over the last year, and has been produced by long-term collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt J, Eugene Mcguinness).
In The Video Marika Hackman gradually turns into a werewolf for her latest single “Animal Fear”, and then feasts on Laura Marling, who’s playing bass in Hackman’s band before her untimely demise.
It’s a lo-fi B-movie style flick, and Hackman displays glorious muttonchops during her lycanthropic metamorphosis, and sadly Marling’s the victim of choice
Marika Hackman recorded this in a tunnel somewhere in the North East, Her lyrics, and her self-directed videos, reveal an appetite for the grotesque. In an early online hit “Bath Is Black“, written when she was 17, she sank into a tub of poster paint and “had black bogeys for days”. And the video for the new track Animal Fear will feature an evisceration of some kind ,a Facebook shot reveals her 1966 Fender Mustang spattered with fake blood. Severed limbs, decomposition and emotional self-sabotage continue to inspire her – in the new song Monday Afternoon she is “breathing in the sickly sweet of my rotting skin”. She wrote the song about the time her appendix burst.
It’s funny how quickly blue hair fades to green. Marika Hackman demonstrates, twisting the ends of hers into little splayed brushes. She looks like an art student, not a former Burberry model,
Marika Hackman’s debut album, “We Slept at Last”, is due next month. Her natural “awkwardness” translates as something else in her music. Her voice is boyish and unadorned, and her eyes-down approach looks intense rather than diffident. Her songs are full of surprising modulations that lie just on the wrong side of pretty and her guitar playing is steady as a mill-wheel. Hackman mixes something ancient and modern, and typically British, in the way only Nick Mulvey has done in recent years. Her songs sound as old as peat bogs, but as smart as Radiohead. In the past two years she has toured with Laura Marling, the 1975 and Alt-J, and has struck up a musical partnership with producer Charlie Andrew.
Coming from Singer Songwriter Marika Hackman‘s her forthcoming debut album entitled “We Slept At Last” available on Dirty Hit Records on February 16th and anoher pre release track titled “Before I Sleep”.
The single embodies the very intrigue of the twelve-track album, which has been produced by long-term collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt-J). Both classic and contemporary, Hackman in “Before I Sleep” is transparent in vocal strength, resonating a dark narrative that lingers long thereafter.
Alongside the beautiful soundscapes known to Hackman, the debut album in full will be released with an art booklet containing a series of powerful images by photographer Glen Erler, who has in turn been inspired by the same dark narrative as “We Slept At Last”.
Over three EPs, Marika Hackman‘s unique songwriting vision has evolved from folky beginnings to more psychedelic territory. Offering a charismatic presence, the soft-voiced artist is slowly stamping her mark on the UK alternative music scene.
In an empty Barbican hall, save for a dancing couple, she treated us to an eerie rendition of “Drown”, the first single from her upcoming debut album.
Marika Hackman will release her debut album “We Slept at Last” on 16th February on Dirty Hit Records.
Marika Hackman’s ascent over the last two years has been wonderful to witness. Emerging as an ‘anti-folk’ prodigy at the tail end of 2012, her string of wonderful EP’s to date have showcased a stunning development, each new release showing a groundbreaking new trait to her ever-expanding sound. So I cannot wait for her debut album to be available titled “We Slept At Last”
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