Ahead of his forthcoming album ‘COMETA’, arriving this Friday via ATO Records, Nick Hakim shares a new single and video from the project in ‘Feeling Myself’.
Fully written and produced by Hakim, ‘Feeling Myself’ takes cues from Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s ‘The Idiot’, and marks a departure for Hakim as he delivers the most confident song of his career to date. The new track closely follows previously released singles and videos ‘M1’ produced by DJ Dahi and Andrew Sarlo, ‘Vertigo’, directed by Asli Baykal and ‘Happen’, which includes contributions from Alex G on piano and Abe Rounds on drums and arrived alongside a Johan Carlsson-directed visual shot in Sweden at Roy Andersson's Studio 24.
Speaking on the new track, Hakim says “I've never really written anything that's like that in terms of the personas. Where I'm coming from is always conversational like I'm talking to someone… I’m being nice to myself and the energy boosting around is confidence and loving yourself in a way that you haven't really felt in a long time.”
Later this month, Nick Hakim will perform three ‘COMETA’ record release shows in New York City, Los Angeles and London - all of which sold out immediately - to celebrate the album.
‘COMETA’ arrives following his critically acclaimed 2020 album ‘WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD’, which Rolling Stone described as a "brilliant collection that expands the horizons of the already dexterous approach to psychedelic soul." The album features collaborations with DJ Dahi, Helado Negro and Arto Lindsay.
Recorded between studios and domestic spaces throughout Texas, North Carolina, California, and New York, ‘COMETA’ (which is the Spanish translation of "kite") is a collection of romantic songs written through different lenses that are guided by Hakim’s experience of falling in love in a way that made him feel like he was floating.
This out of body sensation is the theme that anchors the album as he uses the extreme distance between a kite and a comet as a metaphor for the depth of one’s love for someone else and being so humbled by it.
“The key is to find that extremity of love for yourself,” he says. “It’s about growing into someone you want to be; it’s about finding pure love within yourself when the world around us seems to be crumbling.”
