Marika Hackman has shared her first single in 4 years, ‘No Caffeine’.

The uplifting observe is her first new materials since her 2019 album ‘Any Human Good friend’.

“’No Caffeine’ is an inventory of what to do to keep away from having a panic assault and my nervousness as an abusive companion,” mentioned Hackman of the brand new music.

“Occupy your thoughts / Don’t keep residence / Discuss to all your mates, however don’t have a look at your telephone / Scream right into a bag / Attempt to flip your mind off,” she sings on the observe.

The singer-songwriter has additionally shared a video for the music, which sees her getting a bloody nostril earlier than she is bodily sick. You’ll be able to view it under.

Regardless of it being her first new materials in 4 years, Hackman did launch a covers album in the course of the pandemic in 2020, that includes songs by Grimes, Sharon Van Etten, The Shins and Beyoncé.

“I needed to spend the vast majority of lockdown writing my fourth album, however I discovered it very onerous to be artistic in that manner: to start out with a clean web page and make one thing out of nothing,” Hackman advised NME on the time in regards to the motivation behind ‘Covers’. “Numerous musicians and creatives I’ve spoken to have discovered it to be a extremely uninspiring time. The world has form of paused and there isn’t something round that you may cling on to, to seek out thrilling, to gas some creative drive.

“So I nonetheless needed to be artistic and productive as a result of I discover sitting round twiddling my thumbs to be actually unhealthy for my mind,” she added. “‘Covers’ simply felt like an easy, pure factor to decide on to do this was borne out of artistic frustration.”

Reviewing the file, NME awarded it 4 stars and mentioned: “Created in lockdown, ’Covers’ provided Hackman a option to keep artistic with out pressuring herself to seek out the inspiration to write down a file from scratch on this stifling time. Intimate and creative, it’s a fantastic train – and one that might present a bridge between final yr’s ‘Any Human Good friend’ and the musician’s deliberate return to melancholic materials on her subsequent authentic work.”