Categories:
Cart 0

Your cart is empty

Marika Hackman|I'm Not Your Man

I'm Not Your Man

Marika Hackman

Available in
24-Bit/44.1 kHz Stereo

Unlimited Streaming

Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps

Start my trial period and start listening to this album

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Subscribe

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Digital Download

Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.

Marika Hackman made a very savvy choice when she chose "Boyfriend" as both the opener and lead single for I'm Not Your Man -- savvy because the album makes a pretty seismic shift from the nu-folk of her debut. It's a damn sight noisier for a start, requiring a full band setup. Handily, she happens to be pals with London-based group the Big Moon, who act as her backing band for the record. Much like the Big Moon's own music, this is decidedly grungier than anything she's produced before. But "Boyfriend" also boasts an effortlessly catchy hook, and lyrically it's a blast. Hackman spends the song's running time taunting a nameless "boyfriend" and stealing his girl's affections: "I've got your boyfriend on my mind/I think you know she stayed with me last night/I held his world in my hands/I threw it out to see where it would land." Her sardonic machinations are deliciously entertaining: "It's fine 'cause I am just a girl/It doesn't count/He knows a woman needs a man to make her shout." Musically and thematically, she's cast off the watery vagueness of her debut for a more robust sound and unflinching lyricism. Hackman's described the record as being overtly sexual, and it's nowhere more so than on "Violet." She's dispensed with ambiguous metaphors for a far more direct, and in turn potent, approach: “I’d like to roll around your tongue/caught like a bicycle spoke/you eat, I’ll grow and grow/swelling up until you choke.” All of which is delivered via her playfully dexterous vocal and a mischievous sense of fun.
Listened to in isolation, the aforementioned tracks paint Hackman as some sort of sexually confident femme fatale, but there's plenty of doubt and uncertainty to redress the balance. "My Lover Cindy" boasts one of the record's best melodies as it rides a dancing guitar line and '60s girl group backing vocals. However, the sunny assuredness of the music masks the insecurities held within: "I'm a lousy lover/even if I try/I can go for a couple of weeks and the feelings calcify." I'm Not Your Man isn't exclusively a series of horny confessionals (as wonderful as they are). "Cigarette" unravels with tender candor, her gently plucked guitar frames insightful and intimate details: "Something to talk about/rather than fuck and shout/or maybe we could go to sleep." And the variety within the record displays a wealth of creativity and an infectious energy. "Eastbound Train" is all ramshackle rhythm and seductive melody, "Time's Been Reckless" is a thumping freewheeler, and "Apple Tree" sounds like the soundtrack to a sun-bleached Western, complete with cracking whips and mariachi-like horns. "Gina's World" is not what you might expect (much like the record as a whole) from what is ostensibly an ode to a friend; it's strange, moody, and yet the "she's so good" to me refrain is sincerely sweet. Marika Hackman's latest evolution is a triumph that finds equilibrium amid both wit and heart.

© Bekki Bemrose /TiVo

More info

I'm Not Your Man

Marika Hackman

launch qobuz app I already downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS Open

download qobuz app I have not downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS yet Download the Qobuz app

You are currently listening to samples.

Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.

Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.

From $10.83/month

1
Boyfriend
00:03:59

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

2
Good Intentions
00:03:37

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

3
Gina's World
00:04:14

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

4
My Lover Cindy
00:03:11

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

5
Round We Go
00:03:36

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

6
Violet
00:04:02

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

7
Cigarette
00:02:37

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

8
Time's Been Reckless
00:03:54

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

9
Apple Tree
00:02:55

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

10
So Long
00:03:43

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

11
Eastbound Train
00:04:02

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

12
Blahblahblah
00:04:44

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

13
I'd Rather Be With Them
00:04:09

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

14
AM
00:04:05

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

15
Majesty
00:03:17

Marika Hackman, Composer, MainArtist

© 2017 Sub Pop Records ℗ 2017 Sub Pop Records

Album review

Marika Hackman made a very savvy choice when she chose "Boyfriend" as both the opener and lead single for I'm Not Your Man -- savvy because the album makes a pretty seismic shift from the nu-folk of her debut. It's a damn sight noisier for a start, requiring a full band setup. Handily, she happens to be pals with London-based group the Big Moon, who act as her backing band for the record. Much like the Big Moon's own music, this is decidedly grungier than anything she's produced before. But "Boyfriend" also boasts an effortlessly catchy hook, and lyrically it's a blast. Hackman spends the song's running time taunting a nameless "boyfriend" and stealing his girl's affections: "I've got your boyfriend on my mind/I think you know she stayed with me last night/I held his world in my hands/I threw it out to see where it would land." Her sardonic machinations are deliciously entertaining: "It's fine 'cause I am just a girl/It doesn't count/He knows a woman needs a man to make her shout." Musically and thematically, she's cast off the watery vagueness of her debut for a more robust sound and unflinching lyricism. Hackman's described the record as being overtly sexual, and it's nowhere more so than on "Violet." She's dispensed with ambiguous metaphors for a far more direct, and in turn potent, approach: “I’d like to roll around your tongue/caught like a bicycle spoke/you eat, I’ll grow and grow/swelling up until you choke.” All of which is delivered via her playfully dexterous vocal and a mischievous sense of fun.
Listened to in isolation, the aforementioned tracks paint Hackman as some sort of sexually confident femme fatale, but there's plenty of doubt and uncertainty to redress the balance. "My Lover Cindy" boasts one of the record's best melodies as it rides a dancing guitar line and '60s girl group backing vocals. However, the sunny assuredness of the music masks the insecurities held within: "I'm a lousy lover/even if I try/I can go for a couple of weeks and the feelings calcify." I'm Not Your Man isn't exclusively a series of horny confessionals (as wonderful as they are). "Cigarette" unravels with tender candor, her gently plucked guitar frames insightful and intimate details: "Something to talk about/rather than fuck and shout/or maybe we could go to sleep." And the variety within the record displays a wealth of creativity and an infectious energy. "Eastbound Train" is all ramshackle rhythm and seductive melody, "Time's Been Reckless" is a thumping freewheeler, and "Apple Tree" sounds like the soundtrack to a sun-bleached Western, complete with cracking whips and mariachi-like horns. "Gina's World" is not what you might expect (much like the record as a whole) from what is ostensibly an ode to a friend; it's strange, moody, and yet the "she's so good" to me refrain is sincerely sweet. Marika Hackman's latest evolution is a triumph that finds equilibrium amid both wit and heart.

© Bekki Bemrose /TiVo

About the album

Improve album information

Qobuz logo Why buy on Qobuz?

On sale now...

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

Getz/Gilberto Stan Getz

Moanin'

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Moanin' Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Blue Train

John Coltrane

Blue Train John Coltrane

Live In Europe

Melody Gardot

Live In Europe Melody Gardot
More on Qobuz
By Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP

Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP Marika Hackman

Big Sigh

Marika Hackman

Big Sigh Marika Hackman

Little Sigh

Marika Hackman

Little Sigh Marika Hackman

We Slept at Last

Marika Hackman

We Slept at Last Marika Hackman

Slime

Marika Hackman

Slime Marika Hackman
You may also like...

Wall Of Eyes

The Smile

Wall Of Eyes The Smile

All Born Screaming

St. Vincent

All Born Screaming St. Vincent

In Times New Roman...

Queens Of The Stone Age

In Times New Roman... Queens Of The Stone Age

OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017

Radiohead

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Billie Eilish