Any Human Friend
by Marika Hackman
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Aug 9, 2019
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
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  1. 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 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
  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 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,    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
  3. 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

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. 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.
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  2. The Observer (UK)
    Aug 12, 2019
    80
    Hackman flits between self-reflection and self-loathing with ease (“You’re such an attention whore”), starkly unpicking her anxieties over fuzzy guitar on her most accomplished record to date.
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  3. Pitchfork
    Aug 12, 2019
    73
    There are a few dull moments, like “Conventional Ride,” which explores how it feels to be the object of other people’s sexual curiosity. ... Any Human Friend reaches its high point with the quietest song.
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