(2015) Marika Hackman - We Slept at Last



Review:
As a former Bedales pupil, Burberry model & friend of Laura Marling and supermodel Cara Delevingne, 22-year-old Marika Hackman’s background may prove both a help and a hindrance, but her debut begs to be judged on its own terms. Although it could be loosely dubbed electro folk, her music’s unsettling quality and old-as-the-hills delivery makes her different. Full of shadows and animalistic imagery, her songs are like journeys through haunted forests or the darker crevices of her mind. As she puts it in the particularly eerie Claude’s Girl: “Turn off my mind. I beg you. It’s buzzing like the devil’s bones.” Hackman’s ghostly whisper is mostly set against her plucked acoustic guitar and depth charge-like sounds or distant cries, although Animal Fear is almost calypso and on the almost post-punk Open Wide she sounds like a spook fronting 17 Seconds-era Cure. Monday Afternoon seems to be a bewitched, folksy tale of lovers’ rotting corpses, while the Wicker Man-like Skin and Undone, Undress are superbly claustrophobic. A subtle, understated debut that takes its time, but lands its blows.

Tracklist:
01 - Drown.flac
02 - Before I Sleep.flac
03 - Ophelia.flac
04 - Open Wide.flac
05 - Skin.flac
06 - Claude's Girl.flac
07 - Animal Fear.flac
08 - In Words.flac
09 - Monday Afternoon.flac
10 - Undone, Undress.flac
11 - Next Year.flac
12 - Let Me In.flac

Summary:
Country: UK
Genre: Indie-Folk


Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~681-932 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits