Love and sex, loss and mental illness: on her fourth album, Marika Hackman takes a deep breath

NIn her 2016 book, “After Louca Sou Eu†, Brazilian Tati Bernardi reviews a life marked by anxiety, trying to remember when she had her first panic attack, offering – with disconcerting humor – dozens of possibilities for this founding moment. Born in England in 1992, Marika Hackman does not share this doubt: she clearly remembers that it was at the age of 17, when she was returning by plane from Finland, her father’s home country, that she had her first dust attack. nico, triggered by the almost fatal rupture, thousands of meters above sea level, of his appendix. It was the beginning of the chronic anxiety that she suffers from to this day, and that the music she has been releasing on album since 2015 reflects and, at the same time, helps her calm down.