Nearly a decade since the release of his last solo album, David Gilmour will return with a new full-length, Luck and Strange, this fall. The former Pink Floyd singer and guitarist will release the record’s first single, “The Piper’s Call,” on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Thursday; a music video will follow on Friday. The album will arrive on Sept. 6.
Gilmour recorded and co-produced the album, which follows 2015’s Rattle That Lock, over five months in Brighton, England, and London with producer Charlie Andrew, whose credits include releases by Alt-j,...
Gilmour recorded and co-produced the album, which follows 2015’s Rattle That Lock, over five months in Brighton, England, and London with producer Charlie Andrew, whose credits include releases by Alt-j,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Marika Hackman’s first album of new material in half a decade, Big Sigh, comes after a period during which the English singer-songwriter doubted that she could write music again. As such, the album acts as a purging of the intense emotions and expansive aesthetic interests she developed during that time period, laying bare a tumultuous internal monologue over lush orchestrations and prickly synths.
While Hackman, whose roots are in contemporary folk music, has previously ventured into pop bombast with songs like 2019’s “Hand Solo,” never has her music been as loud and grungy as it is on the guitar-driven “Big Sigh.” The lyrics are at turns direct and inscrutable, with plainspoken sentiments like “Radio silence/I don’t wanna fight it” set against riddles about love and the creative process: “We’ve got grease on our feet and a bag full of weather/And if it stays like this...
While Hackman, whose roots are in contemporary folk music, has previously ventured into pop bombast with songs like 2019’s “Hand Solo,” never has her music been as loud and grungy as it is on the guitar-driven “Big Sigh.” The lyrics are at turns direct and inscrutable, with plainspoken sentiments like “Radio silence/I don’t wanna fight it” set against riddles about love and the creative process: “We’ve got grease on our feet and a bag full of weather/And if it stays like this...
- 1/11/2024
- by Eric Mason
- Slant Magazine
Unless you’re that up on the music scene there’s a good chance that you don’t really know who Marika Hackman is, but maybe you should since she’s been a big name on the scene for a little while and seems to be making an impact. If there’s one thing that anyone should know about the music industry by now, kind of as a bit of common knowledge you might say, it’s that things tend to change quickly and without much warning. If you’re not watching then you might be left behind wondering what happened to the good old days. Hackman
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Marika Hackman...
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Marika Hackman...
- 8/21/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
A demon tries to fill the hole in his heart in the surreal, yet touching video for Alt-j’s remix of “Last Year.” The new version of the track features production from Terrace Martin and a verse from Washington D.C. rapper GoldLink, and will appear on Alt-j’s upcoming remixes album, Reduxer, out September 28th.
Martin anchors his version of “Last Year” with a steady drumbeat and sprinkles sparkling synths and saxophone throughout the cut while retaining the original’s atmospheric mood. The new beat imbues Marika Hackman’s...
Martin anchors his version of “Last Year” with a steady drumbeat and sprinkles sparkling synths and saxophone throughout the cut while retaining the original’s atmospheric mood. The new beat imbues Marika Hackman’s...
- 9/19/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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