Hatchie, aka Harriette Pilbeam, has always had a knack for making melancholy sound strangely uplifting. On her latest album Liquorice, she leans fully into the sound that made her name, delivering a record that plays to her considerable strengths.
The album opens in understated fashion with “Anemoia,” all hazy vocals and wistful lyrics. Things really take off with the sublime “Only One Laughing” and “Carousel,” which both sparkle like The Sundays’ long-lost cousins, located firmly in “I Kicked a Boy” and “Can’t Be Sure” territory. Sandwiched between those two songs is the title track, which, oddly, is the only moment that doesn’t quite land. It feels both a little undercooked and, conversely, slightly overthought compared to the rest of the record.

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