wanna take this downtown?專輯 - NIKI

wanna take this downtown? NIKI

2019-05-17 西洋/流行音樂/獨立/實驗

生於印尼雅加達，現居洛杉磯。年僅20歲的NIKI和所有Z世代的孩子們一樣，成長於資訊飛速傳播的網路時代。通過網路，她用令人注目的創作才能和在多重風格中游走自如的音樂技巧，創造著更廣泛的影響力。在加入擅長在音樂上獨闢蹊徑的88rising後，這位印尼歌手兼製作人用多首青春抒情單曲，迅速躍入全球音樂聽眾的視野。2018年通過88rising發行的個人首張R&B 基調EP《Zephyr》更是錦上添花，在海外音樂媒體平臺上累計了超過1.14億萬播放量，得到了包括Highsnobiety, Pitchfork, Nylon, Clash在內的音樂、青年文化媒體的高度評價。 2018年，NIKI在演出路上收穫了更多的支持和鼓勵。夏天，作為嘉賓和流行巨星Halsey一起巡演亞洲多地；秋天，踏上88rising廠牌Head in the Clouds 音樂節、北美巡演和Rich Brian澳洲巡演的征程。不懈的努力使她在年終獲得了“Complex 2018最佳音樂新人”的稱號。憑藉自己寫歌、錄製、製作、舞臺表現等全面的音樂才能，NIKI開啟了自己成為流行音樂明星的道路。 2019年5月，NIKI發佈了她的全新EP《wanna take this downtown?》。在過去的一年，NIKI經歷了人生起伏，這張EP就像是她的緩釋配方，幫助她走出母親因癌症離世的低谷時期。如同早前發佈的先行歌曲《lowkey》，整張EP散發著少女逐漸成熟時，略顯靦腆的荷爾蒙氣息，這種飽含青春力量的neo-R&B已經成為NIKI的標誌性風格。 頂級的音樂製作，為她甜美的人聲加了點“料”：《lowkey》由曾為Lil Wayne, XXXTentacion等人擔任製作人的Z3N助力；《move!》出自Zedd和Maren Morris熱門單曲《The Middle》的製作人Jordan Palmer和創作人Sarah Aarons之手，並由MØ 《Final Song》、Björk 《The Gate》的MV導演Nina McNeely執導拍攝MV。但這張豪華製作陣容的EP，也只是今年NIKI音樂篇章的序曲…… Like many Gen Z kids who grew up on the internet, 20-year-old Jakarta-born, LA-based NIKI's influences are wide-ranging and genre-busting. NIKI has slammed the door on the conventions of teen pop stardom—writing, recording, and producing her music on her own. Her R&B-oriented Zephyr EP (2018) was just the icing on the cake of what was a huge year for the Indonesian R&B singer and producer, who shot into global consciousness after joining the stereotype-smashing 88rising collective, amassing over 114M streams to date across DSPs. Since the release of her breakout EP Zephyr last spring, NIKI has earned critical acclaim from the likes of Highsnobiety, Pitchfork, Nylon, Clash and Complex, among many others. Her remarkable versatility and self-reliant artistry has galvanized fans across the globe. She went on tour this past summer supporting pop superstar Halsey on her Asia tour, followed by the 88rising Head In The Clouds Festival and 88 Degrees and Rising North America Tour this past fall. Recognized as a "one-of-a-kind artist" on the verge of an "inevitable rise", NIKI closed out the year as one of Complex's Best New Artists of 2018. NIKI starts the year strong with another EP due in May, wanna take this downtown? Building off NIKI's triumphs and hardships of the past year, the EP serves as a cathartic reprieve from a period of hardship in her life following the tragic sickness and death of her mother from cancer. The four-track effort is a collection of songs that has provided her solace in the effervescent but powerful neo-R&B that has become her signature. Sumptuously produced, with cutting turns-of-phrase salting her rich, sweet vocal delivery, the project serves precedes a forthcoming full-length offering from NIKI, Moonchild, due later this year. Off the heels of the EP's first single "lowkey", a record as coy and sensuous as it is honest and empowering, NIKI gives us another taste of the EP with the galvanizing, "move!", produced by Jordan Palmer and written by Sarah Aarons, whose credits include "The Middle" by Zedd and Maren Morris. Accompanied by a powerful music video directed by Nina McNeely (credits include: "Climax" by Gasper Noé, "The Gate" by Björk, "Close" by Nick Jonas, and "Final Song" by MØ), “move!” is the focus track from her upcoming “wanna take this downtown?” EP, slated for a May 17, 2019 release. 看更多

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