Another Manic Defense

Sibille Attar “Hurt Me”

“Hurt Me” is built on the sort of pop breakbeat that’s very hard to come by these days – a sound very rooted in the 90s that as far as I can tell doesn’t seem to get fetishized as much as other aesthetics from the era. The drums evoke a gigantic scale and a vaguely triumphant mood that carries over to the lyrics, in which Sibille Attar declares that someone’s outbursts and passive-aggression can’t hurt her anymore. The use of strings as a counterpoint to the breakbeat – not to mention the lyrical tone – remind me a lot of ‘90s Björk but Attar leans more psychedelic in her aesthetics. Her vocal instincts seem more rooted in rock, particularly the way she seems to push against the groove on the verses.

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