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MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Animal Fear “

Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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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 – ” Bath is Black “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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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.

MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Orphelia “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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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.

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MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Before I Sleep “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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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.

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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”.

MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Drown ” Line Of Best Fit Session

Posted: January 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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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 – ” Claude’s Girl ” Gigwise Session

Posted: January 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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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”

MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Animal Fear ” and ” Drown “

Posted: January 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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On 16th February, Marika Hackman releases her striking debut album ‘We Slept At Last’. Today she’s unveiled the latest track to be taken from the Charlie Andrew-produced first work. She’s also announced plans to host her own exhibition, documenting the expansive album art,

‘Animal Fear’, and several examples of Marika expanding the folk parameters that contained her first two EPs. Herself and Andrew seem intent on pushing the boat out, with this latest take sporting reverb-lined guitars and deep, spacious production. Within it all is a lurking darkness – no surprise, given the song’s about resisting the urge to become a werewolf.

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18th February sees Marika Hackman performing her album in full at The Cob Gallery, with 70 tickets available.  Alongside the performance, the gallery will host photographs that make up the 24-page art booklet for ‘We Slept At Last’.

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