Hatchie aka Australian songwriter Harriette Pilbeam is back with a new single. ‘Nosedive’ is a propulsive electro pop track with echoes of the 90s acts like Garbage and Curve. Crashing drum machine beats are intercut with serrated edged guitars and punctuated by insidious melodies consumed with feeling out of control of your life – spiralling downwards never sounded so good. It follows the release of her awesome second album Giving the World Away that came out in the Spring on Secretly Canadian.
Pilbeam explains “I wrote ‘Nosedive’ with Joe [Agius] and Jorge [Elbrecht] last year after we hit up an amazing goth megaclub in Denver on a weeknight. We were inspired to recreate the energy we felt there and experiment with a lyric-free chorus. There aren’t any other songs in our live show that are this punchy, so we wanted to write something angry and powerful. It’s about realizing you don’t have control over your life despite your best efforts; I wanted the lyrics to sound like the devil on your shoulder convincing you to self sabotage.”
