At the end of “Soft Wet Clay,” a brooding ballad tucked in the back half of Nick Hakim’s new album, something exhilarating almost happens. Hakim has made a career out of writing beautiful songs and then subtly glitching, stretching, and otherwise gumming them up. Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. Hakim’s voice is more subdued than ever, both in his delivery and in where it sits in the mix. With the exception of that brief tantalizing acceleration at the end of “Soft Wet Clay,” they end up more or less where they start.