# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOgd8S5jgRf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34638112-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-12T15:31:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

Born in Baghdad and raised in Virginia, nabeel turns shoegaze and slowcore into a map of memory, identity, and heart. On his latest EP ‘ghayoom - غيوم,’ he’s asking big questions over haunting melodies. “On your birthday / I was scared to call / Because there’s no space / Left inside of you,” he sings on resala - رسالة, proving his music hits even if you don’t speak Arabic.

This November, he hits London for the first time — Get to know the O.G. Pink fan bringing Iraqi shoegaze to the world.

Link in bio for full interview.

✍️: Jordan Darville
#TheOpener

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