London-based singer, songwriter and producer SAKIMA has shared his debut Facsimile EP, out today via Moving Castle. His unfiltered, mature brand of pop-R&B approaches the familiar topics of love but from an LGBTQ+ perspective, refusing to shy away from explicit sex and homosexuality. SAKIMA aims to help change the LGBTQ+ narrative and hopes his music will help people feel a little less alienated by the heteronormative culture of pop.

When making this EP it was critical to create songs that could act as a counterbalance to the unequal representation of gay stories within popular music. I’m sharing all of my insecurities, sexual experiences and youth without leaving anything behind, and without disguising those parts of myself in rhetoric.” – SAKIMA