When Past Life Martyred Saints got Pitchfork'd into hypeland, I kind of slept on it; for a while I was just generally not interested, then I downloaded the album and wasn't super into it. So EMA kind of hibernated in my music collection for a long time until one day shuffle brought me to "Coda" from the same album, which is a brilliant, a capella interlude. "Marked" reprises and builds on a lot of the themes and lyrics in "Coda", building from a quiet intro to a mezzo-forte chorus. It's a quiet song, but it's mixed loudly, giving it a fitting air of proximity and vulnerability; the guitar fret scratches are terrifyingly loud, and Erika M. Anderson's groans sound like howls when she cries, "I wish that every time he touched me left a mark." It's a song about hurt, shame and regret, and Erika sounds so hurt that I have to believe her.
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