Album Info Hide Show Artist: Nick Hakim Album: Will This Make Me Good Released: USA, 2020 Tracklist: A1 All These Changes 4:10 A2 WTMMG 4:42 A3 Bouncing 6:39 B1 Let It Out 1:54 B2 Qadir 7:32 B3 All These Instruments 4:09 C1 Drum Thing 2:48 C2 Vincent Tyler 2:57 C3 Crumpy 3:07 D1 Gods Dirty Work 4:26 D2 Seeing Double 5:22 D3 Whoo 5:04 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Out on 15 May 2020 via ATO Records, Will This Make Me Good finds Nick Hakim leaning deeper into the hazy soul and wandering psychedelia that made Green Twins such a sleeper favourite, but with a heavier heart. Hakim, the Washington D.C. raised, New York based singer and multi instrumentalist, threads grief, longing and self reckoning through songs that feel like theyve been recorded in a dim lounge at 2am, the room perfumed with tape hiss and old valves. It landed during that strange first Covid winter, which probably helped it seep into peoples routines, but the music stands on its own. Its patient, equal parts bruised and curious. QADIR sits at the centre of the record and sets the tone. Long, devotional, and built around a slow pulse, its a tribute to a late friend and one of those songs that feels like a vigil. His voice floats, barely raised above a whisper, while layers of keys and choral harmonies bloom around him. The melody doesnt demand attention so much as it keeps you in the room, and by the end you realise hes built a small universe from a few tones and a memory. It was the lead single for good reason, an emotional anchor that holds the album steady even when the songs drift towards abstraction. Hakim has always been good at tension, and BOUNCING underlines that. The rhythm jitters, guitars squiggle in the margins, and he sings about an anxious spiral with a kind of resigned clarity. Nothing is rushed. He knows that the space between the parts is where the feeling lives, so he lets drums, bass and Rhodes hang in the air until they shimmer. ALL THESE CHANGES opens the album like a slow curtain raise, with watery keys and a low slung groove that recalls classic soul as heard through a fogged window. On the back end, he leans into woozier textures, feeding falsetto hooks through muffled amps and tape worn loops that give everything a soft halo. He produced the record himself, and it shows in the way the sounds feel hand placed and a little lived in. You can hear the affection for analogue warmth, for the gentle grime that comes from running things through old gear and not cleaning up every edge. The result is intimate, even when the arrangements widen out. Hakim is not a maximalist. Hell stack harmonies for colour, then pull everything back to voice and keys so a lyric lands. When he sings about trying to be better, or watching a friend fade, theres no melodrama, just a private conversation set to a slow sway. Critics clocked the shift. Pitchfork praised the albums hazy intensity and the way it wrestles with absence. The Guardian highlighted the psychedelic soul palette and the confidence of the writing. Fans latched onto QADIR straight away, but deeper cuts reward time. The record doesnt chase a single. It asks for patience, and pays it back with small revelations, like the way a guitar line will mirror a vocal flicker, or a drum fill will suddenly open a window a few bars before the chorus. On vinyl, this stuff glows. The low end breathes, cymbals turn to mist, and the Rhodes sounds like its in your lounge room. If youre crate digging at a Melbourne record store or combing vinyl records Australia sites to buy Nick Hakim records online, the Will This Make Me Good vinyl pressing is the one you want. Its the kind of late night listen that justifies a proper sit down session, lights low, side A into side B with no skips. If youre building a small corner of modern soul at home, filing this next to Nick Hakim albums on vinyl like Green Twins makes intuitive sense. Search Nick Hakim vinyl and youll find it easily enough. What sticks after a few weeks is how humane it feels. Hakim never oversings. He worries a line, repeats a phrase, lets the band breathe, and you find yourself leaning closer. The songs move like thoughts, not fixed pronouncements, which suits the subject matter. Grief isnt tidy. Growing up isnt either. Will This Make Me Good doesnt promise answers. It keeps asking the question and makes beautiful music from the asking. Thats the quiet power here, and why this record still feels alive several years on. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review