Hatchie

this Sugar & Spice EP is wonderful: dream-pop that could have come straight out of 1991, completely derivative in sound but so vividly melodic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uITI4DkVRL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY7IbdrtDuA

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

lots of little mostalgic flourishes like the Robin Guthrie style droning guitar on Bad Guy or the way her voice slides up and down on Sugar & Spice like Harriet Wheeler, I can already hear the "it's all been done before what's the point" criticisms but I think there's a charming effortlessness on show.

lol this year's Shambhala thread is about 40% Hatchie content alone.

yeah i've been enjoying her tracks the last few months, heard one in the coffee shop and was like, cool, this cocteau twins revival is going even deeper than i thought. her hooks are good too is the thing. bought the EP from the label at a record fair recently and they assured me a full-length was coming!

dreadful choice of artist names though, given how much of the potential audience is already familiar with waxahatchee. might as well have called herself "leigh bells," "tea projectors," "royer," or "eever ray."

I bought this digital EP but have yet to listen. You're right, the name feels market tested, precision-focused on the demographic seeking a middle ground between Waxahatchee and Halsey.

i saw her live last week and she was excellent despite not having that much material yet

I’ve found that if you listen to the EP twice in a row it makes the perfect dream pop album.

^ I should do that. I've come back to "Sure" about a gazillion times since it was the Shambhala thread, but other tracks are yet to stick with me in the same way.

I was delighted to learn in said thread that she doubles as a member of Babaganouj and is the vocalist on "Would You Like Me?," which is the best Velocity Girl homage I've ever heard and a song I listened to a thousand times before I even knew there was any connection.

market tested, precision-focused

everything about this feels this way, but that doesn't mean she didn't write herself a perfect and timeless song in "Sure"

I think my favourite is “Bad Guy” for those “Just Like Honey” vibes.

Guys, her name is Harriette. I believe Hatchie is just a nickname. Maybe her friends and family are secretly a focus group?

That is a disgusting nickname for Harriet(te), lol

it's a very australian nickname yeah lol

my comment that it feels focus-grouped has nothing to do w/ her name.

and btw i love it/her. i guess what i'm saying is it's very polished for being so early in her career, and slightly lacking in personality, too. reminds me of early Tame Impala, which felt like scientists had genetically engineered a psych-pop band in a lab.

that's kinda what I love about it though, those big Katy Perry-style choruses are what makes her stand out from the sea of similar stuff

I was basically taking issue with korny's observation:

You're right, the name feels market tested, precision-focused on the demographic seeking a middle ground between Waxahatchee and Halsey.

oh, right, i shall chill

I maintain that “Bad Guy” is a perfect song.

i keep thinking "sure" is about to bust into "i try" by macy gray

i think "sleep" might be my favourite. the note she unexpectedly goes down to when she sings "in my DREAMS" is a straightforward John Hughes movie trigger for me??

okay that was before i heard the harmonies on "bad guy".

thanks ilx :)

New one

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/11

It's ...okay. I understand her giving it away tho.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6aCzpx3ctFI3q1Fsw8usyH

new single sounds pretty good

seeing her live tonight opening for beach house

It's not up in my region yet, but I'll get back to you in about 38 minutes.

album is titled Keepsake out 21 June

Boo! Still not playable in EST.

Oh, well here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELnVRJMFhw

God, she's so goooooood at this

Another great song! This is one of my most anticipated albums of the year.

she was pretty good just now! played two other new songs from the album: "unwanted guest" which was similar in style to "without a blush" with a darker, almost nine inch nails-ish verse and then a huge shoegaze-pop chorus, and "her own heart" which was a ballad in 6/8 that made me think 'shoegaze taylor swift'

also charles from babaganouj was her lead guitarist and he was comically dramatic at that

Loving the new single. I think it's my favorite so far! That guitar in the verse is fierce! Also love the bass.

"Without a blush" = sunshine Curve! this is glorious

the first song in the op sounds like sixpence none the richer...but better.

touring all over the country with Girlpool - that's a can't miss

Agreed. Looking to see that show in Asbury Park in order to make a fun little weekend out of it.

Another solid track from her upcoming debut album! I'm getting some Liz Fraser vibes here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdXi0I8vsQ

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.

That piano is very Madchester, I love this. Also she seems a lot more at ease in this video than any of her previous ones.

Maybe we can get Wax to reunite for a Wax / Hatchie / Waxahatchee tour.

Has a slight feel of something St Etienne might've done at some point in the past 30 years

This is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA9dKF9I0W0

Yeah, not bad!

I played the August cover to my other half yesterday then today I heard the original in a charity shop for the first time.

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.

New album Liquorice coming in November!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPvdnVVO2c

Hatchie was a lockdown algorithm discovery for me. I came fully onboard with The Rhythm, which I still think is one of her best. So I was really hoping that she was going to go further down that 'rave music with Rickenbackers' Curve / Chapterhouse route

New single sounds more jangle-pop, really digging into the heavy chorus effects. I will listen to that Sundays / Ivy / Ocean Blue jangle guitar sound forever TBH

That's a great single, but like you Etherwave I was expecting her to go in that direction based on Nosebleed from the deluxe of the last album. This feels like a real return to the sound of her first EP. She's so good at it this sound.

I will listen to that Sundays / Ivy / Ocean Blue jangle guitar sound forever TBH

I don’t know but at this point in my life, I’m fine with being pandered to by guitarists with chorus pedals

I've been relistenening to that first EP quite a lot this year. So fricking good

The Hatchie song Rage is playing this week is quite attractive ear-candy. This, apparently.

Love the single. Sounds like she's going back to the sound of her first EP for this album and I'm cool with that.

Speaking of Rage, these were her guest-programmer selections last night:

https://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/hatchie-guest-programs-rage/105971090

(Though it's endlessly frustrating that the programmer commentary itself is one of the few ABC things that's *not* re-playable on demand AFAIK. I could watch people taking about their favourite music 4eva, even if legal considerations mean the videos have to be excised longer term.)

Time to listen to the longplayer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NtA2ZiKsKk

I am fascinated by this playlist. There are some really "uncool" choices that seem to actually make so much sense, and I've not even heard the new album yet

Not a fan of the album, sadly. My least favorite of what she's put out so far. And an extra layer of disappointment is that my favorite track ended up being "Lose It Again", which I thought was just OK.

Those are some excellent and very surprising choices. Love that she picked the Bryan Adams & Mel C video. I still go back to that one a lot. Inspired Kylie choice and nice to see Case Of The Ex in there too.

I'm into the new album even though it's definitely not as instant as her first two. The opener really reminds me of Boards Of Canada, but I haven't figured which song too. Carousel is the clear highlight. Some big Four Calendar Cafe vibes there and on a few of the other songs.

Yeah, vaguely Cocteau Twins (absent from playlist shockah) vibes is likely what I'm semi-consciously seeking and it seemed to deliver lol. Quite a bit of it has cohered into actual pop songs with some promise of durability, so I was content enough after 1.5 listens.

Thanks boxedjoy for the Youtube link! Looks like it was posted as I was reviving the thread. (She got a pretty tight edit! Collected commentary sometimes exceeds half an hour of rambling.)

I like the first few Cocteau-heavy songs on the new album, especially "Carousel", but I start to zone out after that. Will listen a third time, but I don't think this one is as good as what she's done before, sadly