Album DescriptionAvailable in:
"We Slept at Last" is the debut full length studio album from English vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Marika Hackman, released 16 February 2015 on the Dirty Hit label.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 73, based on 7 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".
User Album Review
Although it could be loosely dubbed electro folk, her music’s unsettling quality and old-as-the-hills delivery makes her different. Full of shadows and animalistic imagery, her songs are like journeys through haunted forests or the darker crevices of her mind. As she puts it in the particularly eerie Claude’s Girl: “Turn off my mind. I beg you. It’s buzzing like the devil’s bones.” Hackman’s ghostly whisper is mostly set against her plucked acoustic guitar and depth charge-like sounds or distant cries, although Animal Fear is almost calypso and on the almost post-punk Open Wide she sounds like a spook fronting 17 Seconds-era Cure. Monday Afternoon seems to be a bewitched, folksy tale of lovers’ rotting corpses, while the Wicker Man-like Skin and Undone, Undress are superbly claustrophobic. A subtle, understated debut that takes its time, but lands its blows. --- theguardian.com
External Album Reviews
None...
User Comments
