Nick Hakim has shared enthralling new track 'Green Twins' – tune in now.
The songwriter's new album arrives on May 19th, following two thrilling, and highly creative EPs.
New LP 'Green Twins' offers dreamy songwriting fused with aspects of trip-hop, matching boom bap beats to tinkling piano and ghostly harmonies.
“I felt the need to push my creativity in a different way than I had on the EPs,” he explains. “We wanted to imagine what it would have sounded like if RZA had produced a Portishead album. We experimented with engineering techniques from Phil Spector and Al Green’s Back Up Train, drum programming from RZA and Outkast, and were listening to a lot of The Impressions, John Lennon, Wu-Tang, Madlib, and Screaming Jay Hawkins.”
The title cut is online now, and it's an atmospheric return, one that owes its origins to a dream prompted by ensuing parenthood.
He explains: "I had a dream where we were walking down the road in JP (Jamaica Plain, MA) and two little green babies were running around the side walk. There was a crash behind us. As we walk away, we look back and the twins had been run over by a car. The babies were made out of some green jello texture. This dream happened three times. This song was the starting point for this project. It was written around the same month that a child was to be born (October 2013)".
Tune in now.
Catch Nick Hakim at the following shows:
April
19 London The Dome
November
7 Bristol The Lantern
8 London KOKO
9 Manchester The Deaf Institute
10 Glasgow King Tut's
11 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
