

Soul Searching was, after the last year and a half, with all of the stuff I’ve experienced, kind of looking inward and taking a look at myself, my feelings, and my own personal happiness, my own personal pain…really talking about that, kind of creating a home and community for people to connect to."Ĭollaborations are also something that Bazzi made a focus of the mixtape, if only sparingly. Speaking to HYPEBEAST, Bazzi said “My last project was very much driven by fear of love and relationship.

Where Cosmic was based off a fictional story of love, Soul Searching is a collection of Bazzi's last 18 months. It's an album of introspection, rather than fiction. “My sound is more definitive, and I feel more confident in experimenting and taking risks.” “I’m questioning myself less, I have a bit more confidence in the studio with knowing what I like and what I want to hear,” Bazzi said.
Speaking to Billboard about the mixtape, he said it's his most confident, and personal, work yet. He's toured with Camila Cabello and Justin Timberlake, released a hugely successful debut album, Cosmic, and those experiences have been distilled into this new mixtape. Bazzi has grown lots since his last release, both as a musician, and personally.
