Today, Halima releases her debut album SWEET TOOTH via drink sum wtr. The release comes alongside a new music video for the track “eleven eleven,” a high energy banger directed by Halima and Alex Kumph, featuring Halima in the thick of a hot and sweaty club night.

 

 

Framed as one long night out – from twilight anticipation to the quiet clarity of sunrise – SWEET TOOTH is a cinematic debut tracing years of self-discovery and emotional reckoning. The album includes previous single / video “cocoa body,” a hot and hazy dance club track with choreography by Roy Garzon and Jordan Kaya, “eau de vie” an intimate anthem that’s all breath and yearning as well as “november like u” a steely, pitch-shifting slow jam.

Across the album, Halima creates a world where sultry club bangers meet deep ballads, in a hybrid of honeyed Afro-pop and scorched R&B. Not genre-less – but genre-full!

 

 

To celebrate the album release Halima will be performing a headline NY album release show on October 7th at Night Club 101.

Halima co-produced the album with a sharp range of producers, including Mikey Freedom Hart (A$AP Rocky, Dev Hynes/Blood Orange, Empress Of), exploring themes of desire, transformation, and the complexity of sweetness. “Sweetness on my terms,” Halima offers – a mantra for reclaiming softness without surrendering strength. “The album is about returning to yourself through chaos, and loving the parts of the journey that hurt – the pleasure and the pain.”

Though SWEET TOOTH marks her full-length debut, Halima calls it an epilogue:

“Am I the person that I wanted to become? I think so. I’ve given myself permission to be bold, to be free. To take up space.”

SWEET TOOTH follows her XYZ EP and EXU, Halima’s first release via drink sum wtr, where she seamlessly wove together UK soul, Garage and experimental R&B.

 

Upcoming Shows:

10/7/25 – New York, NY @ Nightclub 101 w/ Black Hibiscus

10/17/25 – London, UK @ Barbican w/ Touching Bass & Illnoledge

10/18/25 – Bristol, UK @ St. Dunstans House w/ PRVNA and LEXXI