“A winning blend of pop melodies and shoegaze textures defines the sound of Brisbane’s Harriette Pilbeam – AKA Hatchie. Songs such as the superb opener here, Lights On, join the (admittedly quite distant) dots between the Cocteau Twins and All Saints; Quicksand and This Enchanted are both blessed with huge choruses. While her influences are not hard to spot – Sky Ferreira, La Roux (on the title tra”
“shoegaze seeker looks inward on sprawling second album”
“The Aussie indie-pop artist emerges with more confidence than ever on 2nd LP”
“Giving The World Away is saturated in both Hatchie’s sense of self, and her search for it”
“The Australian dream-pop artist’s second album widens her sparkly shoegaze into a brasher, more ambitious sound, locating the edge between noise and melody.”
