The songs are not yet on streaming, but the musician uploaded the video to YouTube on Tuesday following a surprise release event in West Hollywood
Dominic Fike scheduled an impromptu release party in West Hollywood on Tuesday night where he unveiled 14 Minutes, a visual project featuring eight new songs that the musician was longing to release. The songs are not yet available on streaming; they appear on YouTube in a long-form video capturing Fike running on the side of the road with his headphones in.
The video was created by Jack Begert with a concept from Reed Bennett. Fike doesn’t mouth along to the songs, make distinct markers of when one ends and another begins, or even mention the titles of any of them. The free-flowing nature of the release reflects his own approach to sharing these songs.
“Thank everyone so much for coming here to a random warehouse watch a video that I have projected onto a truck with me running and that’s pretty much what it is,” Fike told the audience, which gathered on short notice for the event. “This is a collection of eight of those songs that I really can’t stop listening to and I can’t live without.”
He added: “I just get tired of holding it back, I think that shit is wack. I think all the shit that people tell us, they teach us as musicians, like wait three to five years in between albums and make sure when you come out with that next one it’s gotta be fucking nuts. You know? I get tired of that. And so here’s this — it’s just me running and it’s just me making music and that’s it.”
Fike’s most recent studio release, his second studio album, Sunburn, arrived in July 2023. Rolling Stone placed the album on its 100 Best Albums of 2023 list, writing: “From the vantage point of his hard-won success, the singer and songwriter reflects on the pivotal encounters he experienced while climbing to the top … His internal monologue across the album aches and stings, marking his greatest artistic proclamation yet.”
