{"product_id":"656605050317","title":"LIQUORICE | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHatchie, The cover of Liquorice, the third album from Australian indie pop  artist Hatchie, features a closely cropped portrait of Harriette  Pilbeam laughing, her smudged red lipstick suggesting the glorious  aftermath of a kiss. Captured during a spontaneous backyard photo  shoot using a dinky digital camera, the image encapsulates a  record that is rough around the edges and joyfully undone with  themes of longing, lust, and regret.  Pilbeam began writing Liquorice in earnest while living in Brisbane  over 2022-2023, and later at a home shared with Agius in  Melbourne, ultimately completing the demos in mid-2024. As a  musician who has previously worn her influences on her sleeve,  Pilbeam strove to write from scratch without any specific musical  influences in mind; allowing songs to breathe for weeks, rather than  rushing ideas. She found herself drawn to the melodic simplicity of  her early songs and embraced her musical insecurities: \"I wanted to  see my limitations as strengths that inform my style.\"  After working with producers Jorge Elbrecht (Caroline Polachek,  Japanese Breakfast, Sky Ferreira) and Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo,  Chappell Roan) on Giving the World Away, Pilbeam wanted to  complete Liquorice with a single collaborator, ideally a non-male  producer who also fronts their own musical project. In September  2024, Pilbeam and Agius returned to Los Angeles to work with  Melina Duterte, who records indie rock under the name Jay Som  and has production credits on an assortment of projects including  the GRAMMY-winning boygenius album the record.  \"My last album ended up being really dark and introspective and  that is one part of me, but there was this whole other side that I felt  like I wasn't expressing,\" Pilbeam says. \"I'm a hopeless romantic  and a very silly person, sometimes to a fault.\" Now 32 and married,  Pilbeam found that \"eternal feelings\" of yearning and heartache  quickly rushed back as she reflected on her experiences as a  younger woman. At the same time, she channeled her fondness for  tragic romance movies where the characters do not necessarily find  a happy ending together.  Liquorice is preoccupied with the finite forever. These songs capture  the overwhelming, exhilarating, and transforming side-effects of  infatuation, even if the entirety of the love story only lasts for one  magical night. Like the rich flavors of the twisty, titular  candy-sweet, salty, and bitter all in one bite-Liquorice validates  how longing and obsession are intertwined in the self-discovery of  young womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HATCHIE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242200510709,"sku":"656605050317","price":20.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/0656605050317.jpg?v=1780890020","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/656605050317","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}