Nick Hakim – COMETA (2022) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Cometa is Nick Hakim’s 3rd full-length album. It is a collection of romantic songs written through different lenses, guided by Hakim’s own experience of falling in love in a way that made him feel like he was floating. The dizzying, out-of-body sensation is the theme that anchors this masterful album, which features guest appearances from Helado Negro, Alex G, Arto Lindsay, and DJ Dahl. The album was recorded between studios and domestic spaces throughout Texas, North Carolina, California, and New York.

The album title is the Spanish translation of “kite,” which is a symbol for elevation in Hakim’s personal life. He sees this as a really beautiful way to speak about feeling uplifted and gravitating toward the idea of being in your own orbit while everything else floats around you like comets in space. Hakim points to a specific lyric from “Happen” that fully encapsulates this concept: “A supernova/ Exploded and changed my world.”

COMETA is a collection of romantic songs that explore various iterations of love that are guided by the full scope of Hakim’s own personal experiences from the mutual love he shares with his community to embracing self-love and falling in love with someone in a way that made him feel like he was floating. “The common thread is I’m lucky to have a support system and love not just in a romantic way, but in friendship with the people that I have around me,” he explains. “It’s really about different lenses looking at moments where I felt captivated and then in moments where I was tryinFollowing Small Things, a collaboration with Roy Nathanson utilizing the saxophonist’s poetry, this is Nick Hakim’s third proper solo LP, his first since Will This Make Me Good. Cometa, Spanish for kite, symbolizes the out-of-body sensations experienced by the singer/songwriter in a romantic, life-affirming relationship that powers the album. His lyrics from front to back tick all the boxes for ways of conveying the feelings of disorientation and obsession that come with an intense courtship. As common as they are, they seem to flow out of Hakim like wisps. Certain scenes are depicted more distinctively. “Perfume,” a dazed saunter, catches Hakim intoxicated by the scent of his lover’s sweatshirt as he wears it during a period of longing. Up all night in the feathery ballad of surrender “Happen,” he watches “the sun scan her body.” Hakim and his band cook up more trippy amalgams of soul, folk, and jazz that play out most often in slow motion, sometimes approaching or sustaining a light gallop, never more forceful than a psychedelicized judder that characterizes the blissfully escapist “M1,” one of two tracks co-produced by horizon-broadening new associate DJ Dahi. Sonic continuity with Hakim’s past is further assured by the presence of many longtime collaborators, and the others who enter their orbit (Helado Negro co-writes a song gently shaded in by his synthesizer, and guitarist Arto Lindsay contributes to the bugged-out dishevelment of the opener) comport themselves well. Rarely deviating from a mix of elation and stupefaction, Cometa doesn’t have the range of emotions examined on Green Twins and Will This Make Me Good, but frayed-nerve howls, phrases of distress — anything other than loved-up susurration — would have disturbed the groove. – Andy Kellman

Tracklist:

01. Nick Hakim – Ani (03:55)
02. Nick Hakim – Happen (04:13)
03. Nick Hakim – Vertigo (03:38)
04. Nick Hakim – Feeling Myself (03:34)
05. Nick Hakim – M1 (03:01)
06. Nick Hakim – Only One (03:16)
07. Nick Hakim – Perfume (03:39)
08. Nick Hakim – Something (02:49)
09. Nick Hakim – Slid Under (04:30)
10. Nick Hakim – Market (04:35)

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