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"Any Human Friend" is the third full-length studio album by English musician Marika Hackman. It was released on 9 August 2019 by AMF Records, Virgin EMI Records and Sub Pop.
Any Human Friend received positive reviews from critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 84, based on 15 reviews.
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This album—a treasure trove of zippy guitar hooks, glimmering synths and lemony vocals expertly curated by Hackman—is all about human connection. She hones in on her emotional and sexual connections both to herself and others post-breakup. The truths Hackman discovers along the way, illuminated by songs both inventive and entrancing, are enough to make anyone want to be her human friend.
“send my love,” the emotional crux of the album and, appropriately, also its longest track, tells Bain’s side of their breakup. “You’re selfish and you’re sore / Are you coming home to play the whore?” Hackman asks herself accusingly. Set to an ‘80s slow dance tune at the beginning, the melody eventually crescendos into a tangled mess of guitar and synth and discordant noise, with Hackman’s singing vocoded into unintelligible sound. The distortion of her vocals hauntingly reflects the breakdown of communication in a doomed relationship.
Reviewed by Clare Martin for pastemagazine.com.
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