'Giving The World Away', as the title track of Hatchie's second album, serves to demonstrate the extent to which the Australian artist has moved away from the sunny jangly indie pop (or, as Pitchfork put it, "sparkly shoegaze") of her debut and towards a darker, more complex indie rock that owes more to early nineties baggy, indie dance and the bleaker end of shoegaze. The video for the track only echoes this so it's safe to assume that it's a conscious move, one that leads us to speculate as to what would happen if you mated early nineties Saint Etienne with similar period My Bloody Valentine, released it on Sarah records and then let Northern Picture Library loose on it.
The muscular, layered and complex 'Giving The World Away' rises above its various influences and incorporates its different elements well. There is plenty of flange and distortion, echoes and fades, piano riffs and solid beats here but there's also Hariette Pilbeams still-charming vocals and a solid chorus that will stay in your head for days.
A class act.
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