Marika Hackman is back with a new record. The British songwriter announced False Dogs, her latest full-length, and dropped lead single "33" to set the tone. This is the follow-up to 2023's Big Sigh, the album that found her working through the heavier stuff after a long creative stretch.
"33" is a quiet-storm belter that builds slow. Hackman has always known how to balance the tender and the biting, going back to the fuzzed-out gems on 2017's I'm Not Your Man and the covers project that let her reshape songs in her own image. This track keeps that thread going. There's space in it, a patience, and then a payoff.
False Dogs feels like the sound of an artist settling deeper into her craft. She's spent a decade carving out a corner that's hers alone, folk bones wrapped in indie rock muscle. Now she's adding another chapter.
Press play on "33" and mark the calendar. This one's a grower.