Hatchie

https://pitchfork.com/news/hatchie-announces-new-album-and-tour-shares-new-song-quicksand-listen/

Can't wait!

Can't wait x 2

The new track is decent too! She's yet to release a bad song.

thoroughly excited for this new record based off these pre-release tracks -- "Quicksand" especially is so fucking good

Hatchie and Dan Nigro together is a dream come true tbh

i have a ticket to see her next month but i'm probably not going to go with the covid situation, i bought tickets right before news of omicron hit unfortunately

I saw her play live a few years back and she was excellent - very faithful to the studio versions but for me at least that was absolutely not a problem.

yeah i've seen her before so it's no great loss

Maybe my favorite live-sounding act (compared to how the sound on the record). They really crank up the shoegaze and it works beautifully.

New track!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caV4P2RM7iI

Listening to this right now by pure coincidence. Nice enough.

And another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azPYg7N9leo

This is shaping to be quite the album.

Incredible song. That second chorus really is a moment.

Her album coming out the same day as the Real Lies one is going to end me. I'm thinking of taking the following week off work.

is there anything as good as Stay with Me, Sure or Secret on the new record?

her first album disappointed me a little bit, but she has about half a dozen or so songs that have developed a very special place in my heart

Album is fantastic

Absolute scenes here listening to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nZ_e0_jHc

wow, love the sound on this. got some real NIN/industrial qualities folded into the ravey/housey/whooshy/Cocteau soup she was already serving up.

yeah "the rhythm" really goes for it with its industrial madchester thing

idk if anything on here quite matches "stay with me" or "obsessed" but it's solid and maybe a little stronger than the debut overall, the new industrial edge to the guitars really helps

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.