Marika Hackman has released a new version of her song ‘Skin’ with a guest feature from Laura Marling – check it out below.
The special version of the track comes on the 10th anniversary of Hackman’s debut album ‘We Slept At Last’, the record that first introduced the song to the world.
Hackman has produced the new incarnation of the track herself, recording it between The Gatehouse in Abbey Road Studios and her own studio. It came about as part of Abbey Road’s annual collaboration with Pitchfork London.
The spare, spacious recording sees Marling’s vocals add depth and timbre to the song, with minimal instrumentation giving it a hauntingly intimate effect. Watch the visualiser here:
Writing on X, Hackman has said: “10 years of ‘We Slept At Last’ felt like the perfect time to have a little refresh of one of my all time favourites from that record. Thank you to @lauramarlinghq for lending me her dulcet tones and to Art School Girlfriend for the fabulous mix.”
10 years of we slept at last felt like the perfect time to have a little refresh of one of my all time favourites from that record.
Thank you to @lauramarlinghq for lending me her dulcet tones and to Art School Girlfriend for the fabulous mix https://t.co/k2rlO4qzx1 pic.twitter.com/Xkfwx1JJpi
— Marika Hackman (@MarikaHackman) March 19, 2025
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of ‘We Slept At Last’, Hackman played the album in full accompanied by a string section at London’s Union Chapel on Friday night (March 21).
Hackman’s fourth studio album ‘Big Sigh’ was released in January 2024. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “The result is an excellent follow-up to the breakthrough that was ‘Any Human Friend’. Hackman raises the stakes in her music in a way that feels natural; it is conceptually bigger and more creatively mature, while the songcraft makes this transition feel earned. If ‘Any Human Friend’ was the rebound, ‘Big Sigh’ feels like the crash after the feelings you’ve been ignoring catch up to you — and it’s a defining moment for one of the UK’s most intriguing songwriters.”
Marling, meanwhile, recently played her only live dates of 2025, a string of three shows in Manchester’s Albert Hall where she confirmed that she is pregnant with her second child.