Songs like “Needyougone,” with its thick basslines, envelopes you in a cacophony of ambient sounds with Liv.e’s voice being more of a guide through it all than the narrator. ![]() Liv.e’s music harkens back to neo-soul’s analog roots that helped birth the lo-fi renaissance of the last decade. His beautiful duets with Ty Dolla $ign and The Internet’s Syd are evidence Leven Kali is a neo-soul newcomer who belongs to be here. He can make a random Thursday night sound like it’s brimming with hedonistic possibilities (“ Thursday”) and when he says “I’m yours” (“ Yours”) you believe it. This 23-year-old upstart’s music is imbued with enough bedroom intimacy to sound like he’s telling a secret only to you. As with most neo-soul, Hakim’s music can’t fit in a box, it can only be felt by the soul. ![]() There’s an almost ghostly psychedelic tinge to his voice on songs like breakout single “ I Don’t Know,” which is so in tune with the instrumentation it almost sounds as if Hakim himself is emanating from each acoustic guitar string plucks. Nick Hakim’s music is a mosaic of sounds that warp around you.
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