Marika Hackman

Any Human Friend

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The highly anticipated third full length album from indie-pop-rockers Marika Hackman, following on from her excellent 2017 I'm Not Your Man. Co-produced by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, Let’s Eat Grandma) and Marika herself. 

The process of writing ‘Any Human Friend’ was an incredibly difficult one: Marika stopped being able to sleep properly, waking up in the middle of the night to write songs - but as the best songwriters do, she strengthened her own voice through the process, exploring herself and emerging with a widescreen, heavy-hitting and sexy record.

The longer recording process meant that Marika had the time to experiment in the studio, especially with electronic songs. She deployed synthesisers that recall the off-kilter, oddball hits of OMD or New Order, and places them at the heart of the album. For all the urgency of the backing music, Marika’s natural delivery and sensuous tone offers a dreamlike quality to the proceedings and allows her to look within to find answers that make sense outside.

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