Amoeba Music

UPDATE: Due to health issues, NIKI had to reschedule her in-store event. We look forward to seeing you all on the new date: Friday, October 4th!!

Singer-songwriter NIKI joins us at Amoeba SF on Friday, October 4th at 4pm for a signing of her album Buzz (out now via 88Rising Music)! Purchase the Indie Exclusive silver vinyl at Amoeba SF and get a wristband for the signing event. Limit 1 album/wristband per customer. No holds or phone orders. Previously purchased wristbands will be valid for the new 10/4 date.

What eventually became BUZZ, the third studio album by globally-renowned Jakarta-born singer-songwriter NIKI, began with an urgent quake from the innermost core of her being.

“I went through an identity crisis,” says the 25-year-old. “It took a lot of trial and error, and I just stumbled upon pieces of myself along the way. I named it BUZZ because it feels like I'm on the precipice of something about to happen.”

By embarking on her first world tour in 2022, NIKI sharpened her perspective as an artist whose identity has been indelibly shaped by her Trans-Pacific transience. “Since moving to the States, that transient feeling has never left me — it’s why BUZZ was written in a little bit of everywhere,” says NIKI.

In her initial sketches of songs for the album, NIKI took cues from other lane-paving women with confessional, honest lyricism soundtracked by guitars. “Joni Mitchell is my songwriting north star,” she says — and uncompromising feminist luminaries like Stevie Nicks, Carly Simon, and Liz Phair. To match the wandering spirit of BUZZ, NIKI cultivated her own elastic approach to guitar.

To further harness this creative and personal sea change, NIKI began enlisting producers who had worked with her favorite contemporary singer-songwriters. She tapped Tyler Chester, who’d captured tracks with Madison Cunningham and Sara Bareilles; she also recruited Ethan Gruska, who counts Fiona Apple and Phoebe Bridgers as collaborators.

BUZZ reverberates with the hard-earned wisdom of a young woman who charges dauntlessly towards her dreams — but can still spare a laugh if she stumbles.