Nick Hakim’s woozy psych-soul meditations seem to float on forever. The Washington, D.C. native’s freewheeling style is raw (and sometimes fully improvised) yet effortlessly refined—he’s a Berklee College of Music-trained musician, after all. While attending the prestigious college, he dropped a pair of EPs in 2014—Where Will We Go Pt. 1 and 2—that established his heady alt-R&B sound. On albums like his acclaimed 2017 full-length debut, Green Twins, and 2022’s COMETA, Hakim shapes his melodies around a specific mood rather than a straightforward structure, evoking smoky basement jazz sessions and late-night mind-wanderings.