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Any Human Friend
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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the London-based singer-songwriter was produced by Hackman and David Wrench.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Guardian
    Aug 9, 2019
    100
    Hackman is more confident than ever. With her singles The One and I’m Not Where You Are, in particular, she delivers lethally sharp pop hooks. The more low-key moments cut just as deep.
  2. musicOMH.com
    Sep 11, 2019
    90
    At times, it’s so honest that you may feel like you’re prying into someone’s diary, but it will be a major surprise if this funny, clever, heartbreaking record isn’t nestling at the top of the Album Of The Year polls come December.
  3. Sputnikmusic
    Aug 12, 2019
    82
    Any Human Friend cements Hackman as one of the most intriguing figures in indie-pop/rock, if not for her lyrical antics then for her ability to constantly reinvent her music.
  4. The Line of Best Fit
    Aug 6, 2019
    80
    Any Human Friend is an explosive body of work, one that isn’t afraid to discuss sex and female eroticism with a microscopic lens. Peeling away the layers to reveal an intrinsically human record.
  5. PopMatters
    Aug 8, 2019
    80
    Whether the subject is sex, love, equality or heartbreak, Any Human Friend offers up the perfect combination - lyrics to make you think and music to make you move.
  6. Q Magazine
    Aug 6, 2019
    80
    By simultaneously preserving the intimacy and honesty that made her initial work so striking, Any Human Friend sees Hackman wholly uncensored, and al the better for it. [Sep 2019, p.111]
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  7. AllMusic
    Aug 9, 2019
    70
    Any Human Friend sounds sleeker and more polished than Hackman's previous releases, but at the same time it takes the playfully libidinous tone of I'm Not Your Man and cranks it up a few levels.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. SPQ
    Aug 15, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An incredibly raw and honest album crafted with beautiful and cheeky lyrics about the emotional whirlwind that life can be.… Expand
  2. Paglioz
    Aug 9, 2019
    9
    I have been following Marika since That iron taste.
    In the first album we slept at last we breathed a dark side and at the same time    I have been following Marika since That iron taste.
    In the first album we slept at last we breathed a dark side and at the same time melancholy of the artist that I adore so much: open wide, claude's girl and let me in, just to name three. with the following release of i'm not your man Marika seems to abandon those tones that had characterized his first work to meet new musicality, boyfriend my lover cindy time’s been reckless just to name three, but at the same time you still hear a call at the roots of we slept at last as in round we go apple tree and AM.
    And finally we come to Marika's third album, any human friend, or this squalling banshee of a record as she called it herself, where she clearly feels a brilliant compositional maturity. Finally in this album the voice of marika returns to be the main instrument of the songs, the various overlaps of voices are savored on voices that have so much characterized his creative signature.
    In this album there is a fair compromise between the dark and melancholy high of we slept at last and the search for new sounds encountered in i'm not your man.
    marika addresses the issues of sex by linking the various narratives through sounds that leave their mark.
    to underline the wonderful cohesion between send my love a hand solo or tracks like all night that I consider today the most beautiful among the beautiful.
    quoting "someone" I can confirm that it was a long and painful birth, but I can already tell she's going to run the world when she grows up.
    BRAVA

    Enrico    … Expand
  4. Vanners
    Aug 20, 2019
    7
    Instrumentally this album sounds very nice on the ears, and it's consistently nice on the ears. Though it does suffer at the hands ofInstrumentally this album sounds very nice on the ears, and it's consistently nice on the ears. Though it does suffer at the hands of sometimes not having the right flow between tracks, and that hinders it a bit. Still though, a very interesting listen with a couple bops and some bloody great hooks.

    Favourite Tracks:
    the one, i'm not where you are, hand solo    … Expand

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