“Shy guy, he don’t always say much/Body language, all in the way we touch,” sings Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi—aka New Zealand artist TEEKS—on the sultry, playful R&B-soul of “My Boy.” A song dripping with sensuality and desire, written as he tired of correcting people about his queer sexuality and deciding to be more direct with his storytelling. TEEKS titled his second record after the notion that, like a comet, love passes through our lives with transformational force and beauty. The album explores desire, sexuality, identity, lust, and intimacy, with “Eros” named after the Greek god of love and passion, and “Put Your Love on Me” capturing the push and pull of a situationship. “Overdose,” written after TEEKS read Madeline Miller’s 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, is inspired by the idea that devotion to a lover is as powerful as devotion to a higher power (“I don’t have a god/Got no religion/But baby, it’s you that I worship”). The Māori artist wraps these themes in a warm, alternative R&B-soul blanket that highlights his breathy baritone. He brings the album to a close with the gospel-indebted “Feel My Love,” a duet with New Zealand singer-songwriter MAJIC that encapsulates the record’s subject matter: “Can you feel my love/I am the rain/I have come to bathe you/I have come to heal you.”