- There are few phrases to read on a press release that sink the heart quite like "Rhodes tones" and "R&B vocal lines." Hackman's no stranger to the combo, but where deranged rhythms once gave them some frisson—the stop-start smile-widener "Close," say, or his chest-thumping collaboration with Tessela—his recent output has tended towards garage-leaning house buffed to a blinding shine. Change My Life is another step out of the garage and into the house.
The vocals on the title track and "Lost From Me" are odes to lost love that, judging by the thin delivery, probably wasn't that great anyway. Each is tacked on to a thudding four-four beat that never quite ignites. "We Make Delicious" is all offhand "yeah"s and "uh-huh"s rolled out over a pedestrian beats-and-bass groove. It's all too polished, too lacking in personality or emotion. Change My Life could unfortunately have been made by anyone at anytime in the last five years.
TracklistA Change My Life
B1 Lost From Me
B2 We Make Delicious