Brooklyn musician Nick Hakim’s ‘Will This Make Me Good,’ is a fascinating, perceptive and endearingly worried collection of psychedelic soul. Read our review
does have a thematic through line is contained in that titular question. It could apply to practically every song on the album, but it comes from one in particular, the second track “WTMMG,” where it’s wielded as the hook in a song about growing up over-medicated. “Will this shit make me good?” Hakim wonders, his vocals layered and smashed into a mass that sounds desperate, furious, resigned and contemptuous all at once.
Trained at the Berklee College of Music, Hakim is unafraid to take his genre explorations to more challenging places, where the rhythms start to wobble and the vocal and instrumental melodies seem to tug and twist against each other as they search for some sort of peace. On “Drum Thing” he blasts everything from the snares to his voice into the red as he slides up against something near Thundercat’s goofball funk.
was made with the help of an array of contributors, and musicians are perhaps uniquely attuned to the ways people can make each other good. A more classic variation on that same theme can be found on the closer, “Whoo,” a love song, pure and simple, and maybe the first bit of pure joy on the record.
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