If you hear this in real life and find that you can resist immediately reaching for a song-recognition app, I applaud your lack of curiosity. All that occurred to me was that at any given moment this song could fade and my eyeballs would be burned-in with “GIVENCHY” in 72pt Times New Roman for the following 24 hours. Use of the words “dope” and “chill” will be banned for fear children might become allergic to their hipster/hippie parents.
Nick Hakim manages to impress even while singing a scant total of 80 seconds in “Bet She Looks Like You” from his debut album Green Twins. When your voice is that clear and determined, repetition isn’t needed to make yourself heard. It’s definitely a minimal style that immediately places one into a sugary melancholy. For a whole album, perhaps not, but transience into a sticky-gooey-sad place has never sounded more appealing.