Hatchie

her best song yet

I'm getting some School Of Seven Bells vibes from the new single. Really wish the album wasn't still so far away.

This is the first one, besides the Adult Swim one, that I'm strictly "meh" about.

I felt the same way after the first couple of listens but now I really like it!

Just saw her live. Unreleased tracks from the new album are all sounding great. At this rate it will probably end up being album of the year for me.

this song was on the jukebox a minute ago and i couldn’t tell if it was hatchie or the ‘90s.

it was “ode to my family” by the cranberries. i have never heard this song as far as i can remember.

i also think about natalie imbruglia a lot when i listen to this band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI4aHUVQBgI

this one is like dream-pop new order, i love it

wow

this is gonna be the greatest album of all time isn't it

certainly one of this year's best. I'm excited!

this is gonna be the greatest album of all time isn't it

― boxedjoy, Friday, May 17, 2019 10:25 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES!

I've had the album for a while now. It's so great.

It kind of sounds like what I imagine a fifth School Of Seven Bells album would have sounded like.

I'm very jealous. I was hoping it would leak, but nothing so far.
Ah well, it's only 6 days now...

Remember when most albums used to leak 2 or 3 months early. Nowadays it seems to be 24 hours if that, which is probably a good thing.

But why thou? For us, the listeners, I'd take an early leak over the excitement any day.
For the artist, people who are gonna buy the record, are gonna buy the record. (I know I will, it's on my Bandcamp wishlist already.)
And everyone else is going to stream it anyway. And there is virtually no difference in what an artist earns on streams versus having their music pirated/leaked.

“Secret,” oh my god

album is very solid, "secret" and "keep" are the highlights from the tracks that weren't singles but "stay with me" is still probably my favourite

“Secret,” oh my god

― josh winters (josh)

Yeah, this is the one!

I love this album so much.

I like this album, though I don't think so for the same reasons I liked her early string of singles. This one exists outside of early 90s sonic nostalgia where those past songs were time traveling. But I'll tell you what this album *does* remind me of, though... Sky Ferreira's album.

Some food songs here, some skippable.
The songs that somewhat like Cocteau Twins are better imo

This is a bit more restrained and subdued than I was expecting but it is easily tying with Charly Bliss for my own AOTY

The SVIIB comparison feels particularly apt - this does a similar thing in that it looks forward but with obvious influences, whereas the EP felt more like a well-performed recreation of its inspirations

Today's pitchfork review was pretty harsh-- it reads more like 5.0 than the 6.5 they gave it.

I do take issue with this line though:

For an artist so laser-focused on pop production, Pilbeam’s songwriting is unapologetically sophomoric.

makes me wonder how one could be apologetically sophomoric

the classic 'hype the debut EP & early singles / pan the debut album' manoeuvre

the lyrics aren't anything special but they're not embarassingly bad or anything and i thought it was strange the review focused on them so much/ it also feels weird to complain that there's too much dream pop guitar... on a dream pop album. it's not like the album is lacking in variation either

anyway the "born slippy"-esque synths on "stay with me" are the best

how are you gonna trot out another sounds-like-an-ad diss when "very reminiscent of making out with a 23-year-old mattress boy named DYLAN" exists

very sundays

Is the "Bernard Sumner" guitar pedal commercially available, or did she just nail the right settings?
Because that guitar that comes in at 1:44 on 'Obsessed' is a dead ringer.

probably just the right settings, she said it was a deliberate attempt to sound like "Regret"

Saw her live last night. I think the album has a couple too many midtempo dreampop-by-numbers tracks that weren't especially exciting live, but her voice is great and the momdnt when the guitars crashed in at the end of "Stay with Me" was incredible. She also closed with "Sure," which is still probably my favorite thing she's done.

The album kinda washed over me when it came out (aside from "Stay With Me") but I pulled it out again in preparation for seeing her live last night (she was awesome btw) and now it sounds like a classic?

yeah, one of my faves of the year for sure

Yeah, I just listened to it last week and it sounded glorious. Surprised it didn't get much discussion on here when it finally came out.

I'm still obsessed with "Secret" and "Stay With Me"

I think it's one of those albums where everything sounds so pleasant and comforting and familiar that if you listen to it without really focusing on it directly it's easy to just take it for granted.

(seeing her live was also helpful in this regard: no surprises, but it forced me to pay more attention)

Didn't expect to get so earwormed by this or the SAS EP (and I still like Sugar And Spice more than anything on the album) this year but yeah it's practically perfect for what it is.

"I honestly could have chosen any New Order album really..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhGsCdiPXo

this album kind of frustrates me because there's loads I like about it but there must be elements of music I normally dislike in there as some of the tracks irritate me.

maybe it's the dreamy/ languid feel which gets a bit much, idk.

CRJ and New Order, are we sure she doesnt post here?

Stay With Me has the main hook lifted from something, it's exactly the same sound, something in the last few years I think, cannot for the life of me think what it is, but it's really familiar.

it's fucken born slippy ffs

corny indie nuxx

it's not born slippy, born slippy sounds a bit like it, what I am thinking of is exactly the same sound

is it everything is embarrassing

Not to be vague or anything but I may or may not be singing on a song coming out kind of soon

— hatchie (@hihatchie) October 14, 2020

my guess on a postcard is Calvin Harris

my sock puppet is going with Clean Bandit

I can see it being someone like Four Tet

She was probably referring to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JvP4URRlDE

It's Joe Agius's "solo" project, which consist of the same lineup as Hatchie except he's singing main vocals. So it's basically a Hatchie track.

I like it a lot. I realize that this stuff is probably super derivative but they do know how to write a song!

Looking forward to Hatchie's new stuff.

I don’t really hear industrial - more Curve (especially Cuckoo), though I guess if you were casting around for a contemporary reference point then the last Halsey album might be one.

I feel like the melodies Hatchie concocted on the first EP were so indelible that it has placed her in something of a quandary ever since. She occasionally gets back to that level (“Obsessed” being the best example probably) but both the first album and now this one mostly have less memorable melodies - but the flipside is that that maybe liberates her to explore sonically, and I can’t help but nod approvingly at almost every choice she makes on this new one. It’s a lovely sounding album.

Should clarify that “less memorable melodies” is only relative - there’s some fantastic melodies on both albums.

it's really just "the rhythm" that's not far off nine inch nails in places but the harder-hitting guitars on it show up a fair amount elsewhere too

was only sorta interested in hearing this til the radio played "The Key." so good, it's the future Cranekiss foretold.

Yes!!!! pic.twitter.com/GiELurtd9D

— Hatchie (@hihatchie) July 8, 2022

I saw her this past May, and I had a great time. Everything about it was great. She plays the bass!

This has been a very dry year for music discovery for me. Nothing new that's come across my desk has really landed for me. But I'm listening to Hatchie's Giving the World Away and deeply enjoying it. I had never heard her before and this is really up my alley.

i agree that it's good. some of the new record is very natalie imbruglia-core, which really hits the spot when i'm in the mood for it.

Oooh, both sides of the record end with locked grooves!

Yeah, she's working with an exciting blend of styles. Sometimes it's Natalie Imbruglia or Heather Nova, sometimes Curve, Lush, Cranberries, Happy Mondays on the title track for sure...so much more. A lot of artists that I love, but wouldn't necessarily listen to back-to-back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHzDZD2hoBc

new song

I found the latest album a little disappointing tbh but love this new track. Helps I’ve been re-listening to a lot of Garbage recently.

New track with Liam Benzvi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLZc8OPHrHc

As usual, it sounds like something super familiar that I somehow can't put my finger on.