Giving The World Away - Green Translucent Vinyl

Description

Giving the World Away, Hatchie’s second album, is the best introduction to the work of Harriette Pilbeam, the Australian singer, songwriter and musician behind the project. Produced by Jorge Elbrecht (Sky Ferreira, Japanese Breakfast, Wild Nothing), Giving the World Away is Hatchie’s brightest and most important work to date. Made with the help of Joe Agius, Hatchie’s longtime collaborator, this new album takes up the celestial shoegaze dear to her and blends it with the pop sensibilities found on her previous releases, but with the volume knob turned all the way up. Built around the drums of Beach House drummer James Barone, Giving The World Away is sonically rich, with a structured musicality that bears traces of 90s trip-hop and acid house influences. Harriette had initially planned for these songs to go in a more energetic direction, imagining her concerts turning into a big dance party, but things turned out differently. Between Covid and successive lockdowns, she ultimately withdrew into herself. This introspection and self-discovery served as the true inspiration for the record. On Giving the World Away, she returns again and again to the theme of dismantling internalized shame, of seeking gratitude and stability, and of being able to trust herself. Incisive and profound, it is an album about self-confidence, about that strange period that is young adulthood, that moment when you finally begin to clearly know who you are.