A studio can operate like a small theatre of decisions, with each choice arriving before its meaning is fully known.
Nicosongs’ “In My Mind“, , grew from that kind of immediacy. During a first visit to a Melbourne studio, the artist created melodies and most lyrics while producer sb90 built the instrumental in real time.
The first session lasted three hours. Will Henderson later handled the mix and master. That sequence gives this contemporary R&B single an appealing premise: feeling and rhythm were developed side by side, not assigned separate rooms.
Melbourne-based Nicosongs approaches In My Mind with an interest in depth that still allows for movement. The Weeknd and slower tracks by Tyla are named influences, two reference points that help locate the single without reducing it to comparison.
The goal is clear: an emotional centre with enough groove to invite the body into the experience. For audiences across Ghana, Africa and beyond, that instinct speaks to a durable R&B pleasure, one that lets private feeling share space with communal motion.
The speed of the session matters because it frames the song’s identity. Nicosongs was not arriving to a completed instrumental or a lyric sheet waiting for decoration.
sb90 began from track inspirations, the beat developed, and Nicosongs responded from the couch with melody and most of the words. It is a creative order closer to an ink drawing than an architectural blueprint.
The first mark sets the direction, then every later line answers it. In My Mind is therefore best approached as a record shaped by exchange.
sb90’s role reaches beyond the standard producer credit. The instrumental prompted the melodic and lyrical work, making the beat an active participant in the writing.
That detail is important for a contemporary R&B single, where rhythm often determines how a vocal line finds its pace. Nicosongs’ account places melody at the centre of the session, which gives the vocal approach a compositional purpose before any claims about tone or range are made.
The artist’s contribution begins with response: finding a line that meets a developing beat without slowing its motion.
Will Henderson’s mix and master complete a different stage of the process. The credit gives the rapid first session a finishing hand, carrying its ideas towards a released form.
No instrument list, sectional map or lyric excerpt has been made public, and the single does not need invented detail to hold attention. Its arrangement can be understood through sequence instead: sb90 begins the instrumental, Nicosongs brings melody and most lyrics into the room, and Henderson completes the final audio work.
Each role has a defined place in the record’s construction.
The title In My Mind suggests inwardness, yet Nicosongs pairs that inward pull with a stated wish to make a record that moves people. That meeting point is the release’s strongest idea.
Emotion is not framed as a pause in the groove, but as something that can travel inside it. The image is less a locked room than a late-night train carriage, where a private thought can exist amid the forward motion of everyone else.
It offers an accessible entry for listeners drawn to R&B that values feeling without giving up momentum.
This original single also arrives ahead of Nicosongs’ 6 November appearance at the Evelyn Hotel for eXposure in Melbourne. The yearly showcase selects performers through industry veterans, placing the live date alongside a clearly identified creative team and a newly released record.
The booking does not need to carry exaggerated meaning. It does, however, give In My Mind a useful next setting: a song assembled through fast collaboration now moving toward the stage.
Nicosongs’ In My Mind leaves its most persuasive impression in the way its creation mirrors its stated ambition.
A track built quickly can risk feeling unfinished, but this one is presented through a considered chain of roles, from sb90’s instrumental spark to Henderson’s final audio work.
As Nicosongs prepares for exposure, the question lingers: how will that first-room instinct change when it meets a live audience?
