Marika Hackman Shares New Single

Marika Hackman has dropped her new single “i’m not where you are”
Photo credit: Joost Vandebrug

Marika Hackman has dropped her new single “i’m not where you are.” The track was co-produced by Marika and David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, Let’s Eat Grandma), and is available now from Sub Pop (in North and South America) and AMF Records (for the rest of the world).

Marika Hackman on “i’m not where you are”:

“i’m not where you are” “is about breaking up with people, or self-sabotaging relationships” “That feeling of not trusting one’s 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 its actually incredibly lonely, introspective and self-deprecating”

From Sub Pop

“i’m not where you are” fits into a wider narrative, in which the process of writing was cathartic and – as the best songwriters do – she has strengthened her own voice through the process, exploring herself and emerging with a widescreen, heavy-hitting new sound.

Marika has deployed synthesizers that recall the off-kilter, oddball hits of OMD or New Order and places them at the heart of “i’m not where you are.” For all the urgency of the backing music, Marika’s natural delivery and sensuous tone offers a dreamlike quality to the proceedings and allows her to look within to find answers that make sense outside.

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