HATCHIE
“Even he would make fun of himself for being a grumpy old guy!” Hariette Pilbeam, the 25-year-old Brisbane-based dream pop songwriter known as Hatchie, is recalling how surprisingly down to earth and welcomingly ordinary she found Robin Guthrie, whose band Cocteau Twins—perhaps the foremost act in the extensive dream pop canon—is a blatant influence. The two spoke on the phone a few times after she released her breakout 2017 debut single, “Try,” on which the meeting of Pilbeam’s gentle, soaring voice and her reverb-and-phaser-infused, diamond-clear guitars replicate the joy of
