“Ladies and gentlemen hold onto your wigs cause this bish is back”. Marika Hackman announced her return on Twitter, sounding at her most self-assured and liberated right from the get-go. Watch out, world - she’s back with a banger.
‘i’m not where you are’ marks the beginning of a new phase for Hackman after 2017’s I’m Not Your Man. Although the aforementioned was a sideways step from her 2015 debut We Slept At Last, which was inherently more atmospheric and nuanced, 2019 is the year that Hackman shows what’s really inside.
This new track is fuzz-laden, melodic, cathartic, heavy-hitting and sensuous. Her voice is rousingly powerful and unshackled. Staying true to form, she delivers her lyrics with such ease that comes only from being confident in your own writing. She has taken time to explore herself and her practices, sounding sharper with each day that passes. The single was co-produced by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, Let’s Eat Grandma) and Marika herself, and has been released by AMF Records.
Speaking about the single, Hackman comments, “‘i’m not where you are’ is about breaking up with people, or self-sabotaging relationships. That feeling of not trusting ones emotions because you can’t seem to get to the same place as the other person. On the surface it seems like an arrogant ‘everybody falls in love with me’ kind of song but it’s actually incredibly lonely, introspective and self deprecating.”
Welcome back, Marika Hackman.
