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Jun 2, 2017Witty, sexy, confident, and charged with live energy, I’m Not Your Man is the sound of Marika Hackman making the album she always needed to make.
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Jun 27, 2017[“Round We Go” is] a roiling, overpowering emotional mixture, and it fits right in with what I’m Not Your Man wants to accomplish: a forthright treatise on sexuality and relationships, told with an uncanny sense of comedic timing and a penchant for reaching for the throat with its hooks, arrangements, and, most resoundingly, its lyrics.
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May 30, 2017Her new found confidence comes through in spades here and the end product is a record that shines with a captivating vibrancy.
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Jul 19, 2017Throughout, I’m Not Your Man is a meandering undercurrent of predatory slyness, advancing with a slack but completely controlled swagger.
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UncutJun 16, 2017I'm Not Your Man is a much rowdier navigation of female relationships and sexuality that moves between dark dreampop and post-Belly/Breeders rock, armed with flashing hooks. [Aug 2017, p.30]
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Jun 7, 2017Without being especially political, the album is resolutely female in the strongest, most self-asserting way.
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Jun 5, 2017This record feels produced, whereas her first release had the feeling of a bedroom recording. She may have lost the kooky melodrama and charm that she enveloped earlier on, but I’m Not Your Man feels strangely right, if quite startling in its shift in direction.
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Jun 1, 2017Her pearlescent lightness is still there in her sweetly sung cut-glass vocals, but in place of acoustic twangs there are heavy lidded licks and an overall louche noir. Grunge and shoegaze set the tone this time: the diaphanous guitar chimes enveloping like a cape.
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May 30, 2017Marika Hackman's latest evolution is a triumph that finds equilibrium amid both wit and heart.
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May 30, 2017Not abandoning her folk roots entirely, I’m Not Your Man proves an emotional and sonic progression for Hackman, a record that at its best is affecting and fun.
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Jun 2, 2017As a writer, Hackman may owe a bit to PJ Harvey, but I’m Not Your Man is the proper arrival of a bold young British force.
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May 30, 2017Mainly, there aren't enough chances taken to keep you hooked in for the duration of 13 songs and this might be a case of selectivity leading to greater impact overall.
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MojoJun 27, 2017The record increasingly drifts into hazy, slo-mo dream-pop, which inescapably pales besides the bolder tracks upfront. [Aug 2017, p.94]
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Jun 5, 2017Hackman’s new sound has a slackerish, sly swagger reminiscent of Courtney Barnett (or going back to the source, Liz Phair).
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May 31, 2017Much of the album’s promise brews in Boyfriend, where backing band The Big Moon’s Radiohead-ish guitar chimes offer suitably insouciant support to Hackman’s take-down of male arrogance. But substance runs thin elsewhere as Hackman seems unsteady in transition, flicking through styles without finding any that thrill in colourless contrast to The Big Moon’s bright vim.