Music News - New Release from Teeks 'First Time'
05 March 2021 - 0 Comments
Weeks out from delivering his debut album to the world, celebrated New Zealand Maori 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 The Grapefruit Skies as we reach the penultimate moment of the album’s storyline. Listen to First Time here.
Additionally, Teeks has shared a sweeping album trailer to get you in the mood.
Slow-released in three parts (or "waves" as Teeks refers to the process), 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.
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 Maori 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 instrospective period of his life, Teeks found relief in surrendering to emotion, rejecting the colonised ideals of ‘masculinity’, while embracing the duality of Te Ao Maori, 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 (Ngapuhi, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati 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 delivers 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, Teeks hit the road late last year. The tour sold out in an unprecedented 7 days. Backed by the acclaimed Black Quartet, Teeks performed in beautiful, historic venues from the Far North to the Deep South.
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 Maori.
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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