NIKI’s follow-up to the 2020 concept album MOONCHILD illuminates her striking growth as a singer-songwriter. Combining new and reimagined material from her secondary school days, Nicole navigates the past in glimmering, emotion-soaked alt-pop. Songs like the folk-hued “Oceans & Engines” offer the artist a chance to share not just her longing, innocence and heartache but also a new-found wisdom. “Life can be quite cyclical at times,” she writes, “and that has become painfully obvious throughout the process of re-working these songs that are some years old now.”