“I got lost on my way to you,” sings 23-year-old alternative R&B artist Moahi in the middle of his debut EP. The line, from “Grown Up (Interlude),” introduces a sentiment that underscores many of the project’s seven tracks: the dizzying but ultimately aimless pursuit of love in the 21st century. Blending rap, jazz, trap, and soul, This Was Once a Sketch is both an introduction to Moahi’s omnidirectional music and a capsule of what it means to be young and afraid. “Please don’t make me go outside,” he sings on the guitar-driven “Outside.” Album closer “Caffeine High” sees him lament the routine of day-to-day life, while he assesses the cost of a failed relationship on “In Loving Memory.” “Life won’t be the same/They’ll be passing by my grave, just a stone without a name,” he raps in a moment of unbridled sensitivity—one of many disarming passages in which he navigates the emotional troughs that make up the EP.