Big Sigh

by Marika Hackman

Big Sigh cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 January 2024
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 35:41
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from a prolonged period of writer's block, the British songwriter presents a deeply introspective, highly atmospheric return to her folk-rock roots. The delicate, string-laden arrangements and sparse piano ballads underscore profoundly melancholic, vulnerable lyricism dealing with creative anxiety, severe depression, and emotional exhaustion.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, dreamy, vulnerable, distorted, lo-fi, folk, acoustic, female-vocals, confessional

Tracklist

  1. The Ground (2:31)
  2. No Caffeine (3:11)
  3. Big Sigh (4:02)
  4. Blood (3:49)
  5. Hanging (3:53)
  6. The Lonely House (2:29)
  7. Vitamins (4:12)
  8. Slime (3:58)
  9. Please Don鈥檛 Be So Kind (4:29)
  10. The Yellow Mile (3:03)

Credits

  • Sally Herbert - arranged by [strings and brass arranged by]
  • Brian McHenry - artwork, illustration
  • Alfie Johnson - cello
  • Ian Burdge - cello
  • Richard Watkins - french horn
  • Andy Wood - trombone
  • Daniel Newell - trumpet
  • Bruce White - viola

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