Timing

West London-based songwriter, rapper and producer Xadi kicks off 2022 with his new single Timing, featuring fellow collaborator and bilingual Manchester artist Nina Cobham.

First collaborating on their track Mañana, which has hit over 1 million streams on Spotify, the pair have once again delivered an infectious downtempo, bedroom-R&B track blessed by Xadi’s mellow vocal performance. The track sees Xadi explore themes of love and lust across a tranquillising production, one that’s oozing in reverb-drenched, rhythm guitars and sparse drums.

Directed by Fergus Worrall and filmed in 16mm, the official music video for ‘Timing’ displays raw cinematic visuals of Xadi and Nina in a rural London setting, an idyllic visual representation for the new single. Speaking on the video, Xadi states:

“The story is of Xadi with a bunch of friends away on a trip, doing stupid boyish things but totally emotionally absent, unable to engage with the activities, because his head is in a nostalgic place, the flashbacks to the beach in whitstable. When the track comes to a head, Xadi is around the campfire with his friends, while one of them, drunkenly shouts in his ear some inane story, at which point he breaks, he runs off into the night and doesn’t stop, no longer able to live like this.”

We will look forward to hearing more from Xadi in the year ahead.