MARIKA HACKMAN - GIA FORD

"Une des nouvelles reines du folk"

Marika Hackman marks her return with “Big Sigh,” the latest breakthrough from a musician who remains inventive with each release. Over the years, her enigmatic, genre-blending sonic aesthetic has been compared to artists ranging from Joanna Newsom and Blur to PJ Harvey.

On Big Sigh, the British artist ventures into unknown territory. With a constant tug between organic instrumentation and the harsher dynamics of synthetic distortion - as if we were walking in an abandoned industrial wasteland, covered in stinging plants.

GIA FORD

How often do we hear from the outsider’s perspective? For rising new artist Gia Ford, those figures on the fringes of society are by far the most fascinating. Her songs tell the stories of the downtrodden to the downright dangerous. And through them, we begin to hear familiar, uncomfortable truths about ourselves.

Raised between Sheffield and Cheshire after her parents divorced, Ford developed an early passion for both poetry and original songs. This has culminated in her spectacular debut album, Transparent Things, a collection that demonstrates Ford’s signature Sheffield swagger, burnished with nods to alt-pop and psychedelic sleaze. Most of all, it shows how Ford is able to craft songs like no other artist of her generation.