On his new single, nimino bottles the intoxicating and sometimes maddening feeling of finding your imperfect partner.
Combining brooding reality with bubbly production, “Nothing Perfect,” now available via Ninja Tune’s venerable Counter Records, strikes a sublime balance. It's a track to slow dance with your partner, appreciating every misstep and every out-of-sync turn.
Joyful arpeggios and an irresistible rhythm envelop us like a warm hug while Nimino's emotional voice carries the weight of love's imperfections. “Are you alone? Because it's not perfect at all,” she chirps candidly.
But he does not regret the inevitable arguments; he delights in them through romantic understanding: “But I would settle for you / grow old and argue.” Leaning on the messiness of love rather than idealism, those lyrics evoke a life of long gazes, heated debates, and subsequent reconciliations.
“My friend was cheated on by a girl he liked, but a couple of months later she came back into his life and said, 'Are you alone?' 'Cause he's not perfect, but I'd settle for you,'” Nimino explained. . “I feel like it speaks volumes to modern dating and the fact that people can even struggle with their own standards.”
Listen to “Nothing Perfect” below and find the new single on streaming platforms here.
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