Marika Hackman
Big Sigh
60‐‐82点相当
The Big Moonを従えた作品で知ってから
かれこれ数年。
素材が良いので良い作品だと思えるが、
もうそろそろあとひとこえほしいところではある。
https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/marika-hackman-big-sigh-review-3567281
On her last album ‘Any Human Friend’, Marika Hackman became known as indie-pop’s most forthright troubadour. Whether it was lines about oral sex, masturbation, or imagining the worst things your ex might be thinking about you, she tossed these colourful and often raunchy details out winkingly and unflinchingly. It was a breakup album, lyrically infused with plenty of self-loathing and confusion, but it tended to stay pretty light — the dark feelings flicked away, eyes set on the rebound. On her new album, ‘Big Sigh’, Hackman retains that same lack of squeamishness while the party deflates; now, it’s the gore of heartbreak and doomed romance that she’s exploring.
Often across the album she’s addressing a lover via visceral metaphors. “My heart won’t grow with your fingers down my throat,” she tells them on ‘Hanging’; “You want to suck my blood,” on ‘Blood’; “You called me dolly and cut my hair / You plucked my wings off and I went slack,” on ‘The Yellow Mile’. Much of this is delivered as accusation, as if the cheeky gaze that defined previous work has become a withering stare. The bodily imagery paints lucid pictures of emotional violence and masochism, while interestingly, also speaking to a very personal fixation of Hackman’s — she says she first experienced anxiety after contracting sepsis aged 17.
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