Photo Credit: Carolina Faruolo
Hattie Whitehead shares ‘Machine,’ the edgiest song to be taken from the rising UK singer-songwriter’s long-awaited debut album Bloom (released on Friday 4th October 2024).
‘Machine’ begins with contemporary sounding beats but then blends with them a beautiful guitar arrangement and the delightful vocals of Hattie Whitehead.
This track sees Hattie effortlessly combine two genres to create a truly radiant song.
Its infusion of hypnotic oscillating electronica looms large within the album’s mainstay of folk-infused acoustic guitar, with the keys courtesy of Chris Pemberton (John Grant) and the drums from the album’s powerhouse producer John Reynolds (whose credits include the likes of the late Sinead O’Connor).
Described by Hattie as “An ode to selfish power-hungry people,?” she wrote the song in the run up to 2019’s general election galvanized by the sickening way the Conservative Government put capitalism over people.
Hattie explains how she “created a daydream situation where (she) envisaged those fuelled by greed rising to the top to find themselves alone having cast everyone aside in their pursuit of power.
The lyric ‘On your throne alone, you’ll die’ pretty much sums up the sentiment!?”
It’s one of several protest songs on Hattie’s debut album Bloom which run alongside the album’s main theme, an exploration of life in the aftermath of grief, inspired by the loss of her mother to cancer.
With the album being one with as much light in its hope as shade in its sadness, and beautifully bittersweet throughout.
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