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First Listen: Nick Hakim, 'Green Twins'

The soul singer's debut album is both irresistible and challenging.
Nick Hakim's new album, <em>Green Twins</em>, is out May 19.

Nick Hakim writes songs that honor his own complexity and the complexity of love (they are, in part, inextricable), delivered through brilliant, pillowy, jazz-inflected arrangements. But, perhaps above all, it's the voice — a striking vessel of emotion and an impressive technical force.

On , Hakim's full-length debut, he holds every lyric with care. Not

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