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TEEKS
shares poignant new track
“FIRST TIME”
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Taken from forthcoming debut album
‘SOMETHING TO FEEL’
TO BE RELEASED FRIDAY, MARCH 26
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE NOW
WATCH ALBUM TRAILER HERE
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Photo credit: Danni Bishara
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Weeks out from delivering his debut album to the world, celebrated New Zealand Māori artist TEEKS unpacks his stirring new track, “First Time”.
Dancing in deep and personal territory, “First Time” takes listeners back to the vintage soul-infused days of debut EP The Grapefruit Skies as we reach the penultimate moment of the album’s storyline. Additionally, TEEKS has shared a sweeping album trailer to further tease the body of work to come.
Slow-released in three parts (or “waves” as TEEKS refers to the process), his debut album Something To Feel will be released in final form on March 26, 2021 via Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. Something To Feel is available to pre-save now on all streaming platforms. Fans who pre-order any CD, standard black or limited edition gold vinyl will receive their products signed by TEEKS himself. Pre-order and save Something To Feel here.
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Listeners were introduced to the big-voiced performer with 2017’s critical favourite The Grapefruit Skies EP. Come 2020, a year that included multiple, global catastrophies, the award-winning New Zealand Māori singer-songwriter sits at the precipice of sharing something larger than life. Written and produced by TEEKS with acclaimed Producer and Engineer Simon Gooding, Something To Feel is deliberate and bold in its purpose. Walking into an introspective period of his life, TEEKS found relief in surrendering to emotion, rejecting the colonised ideals of ‘masculinity’, while embracing the duality of Te Ao Māori, the worldview of his indigenous people. The result; a raw and confronting work of art.
“Coming into this new album, writing about myself and how I am navigating my emotions internally, and the whole ocean of what that is, I have always tried to suppress so much of me,” says Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui). “This is a story about maturity and growth as a person. A coming of age.”
Unveiled in 12 elegant songs about love, self-knowledge and emotional vulnerability, TEEKS will deliver an album that points to the ways forward, proving there is a way to step up and out of the past, leaving hurt behind, and embracing something new. The album’s first single, “Without You” compelled US Vogue to proclaim TEEKS as “New Zealand’s Soulful Singer to Know”, setting off the waves for what unfolded over the next six months. The single was quickly followed by the release of I in the middle of a lockdown, offering some emotional comfort in a time of uprooted living.
Before long, TEEKS revealed his greatest love song to date, “Remember Me”. Between the bars of this soaring, expansive anthem, he bleeds emotional vulnerability in a bold statement of modern masculinity. Watch the music video here, in which TEEKS made his directional debut, working alongside Director Ray Edwards and Producer Mia Henry-Teirney. This was followed up by II and a very special tour announcement, giving audiences in select New Zealand towns the chance to experience Something To Feel up close and personally before release. Since the sold out tour, TEEKS has garnered even more praise from 10 Magazine, Pilerats, Sniffers and more.
Arriving at a crucial time, Something To Feel is an album of deep emotion, showcasing the artist’s connection to family, heritage and his home country through the lens of Te Ao Māori. Cast from the most isolated corner of the earth – a private universe away – TEEKS shares a songbook destined to connect the world.
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“FIRST TIME” is out today
BUY/STREAM HERE
‘SOMETHING TO FEEL’
is out Friday March 26
Via Sony Music New Zealand
PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE NOW
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Something To Feel’ by TEEKS is out March 26, 2021 on Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand.
Available to pre-save on all streaming platforms, and pre-order now from your favourite record store here.
SOMETHING TO FEEL
Tracklist
1. Just For Tonight
2. Waves
3. These Hands
4. Without You
5. Into You
6. If You Were Mine
7. Here Before
8. Remember Me
9. Younger
10. Powers
11. Through It All
12. First Time
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