NIKI announces second album Nicole

31 May 2022, 17:11 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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88rising's NIKI has revealed that her upcoming second album is titled Nicole, and it's due out in August.

After announcing her forthcoming single "Before" last week, which is out this Friday (3 June), NIKI has shared the title of her second album.

The album, titled Nicole, will follow NIKI's 2020 debut album Moonchild, and is expected to arrive in August.

On Instagram, NIKI wrote of the album, "Before I was signed as NIKI, some of you may know I started out posting original songs on Youtube. That channel became the birthplace of my artistry and through it I had my very first creative outlet & community. Some of you have been there since then! If you’re reading this, know your support made the dream seem a little less impossible. So thank you endlessly, I truly wouldn’t be here without ya."

"Many of you were disappointed when I took those videos down," NIKI continued. "Transparently, I think I was just running from myself for a while. But sitting with myself through the pandemic forced some kind of reckoning to occur and I re-evaluated what I actually value and yearn for in life, music included. Long story short: am now sauntering back to where I’ve always wanted to be musically! Some of you won’t like it - I understand! Some of you will - I’m stoked for you to hear it! Regardless, I always felt high school Nic deserved to have her songs published. So, with that (and in light of Taylor’s Version duh), I have quietly been re-recording & reimagining some of these songs that I still adore to this day! The first half of the album will feature both new & archived songs no one’s ever heard before, and the latter half will feature my personal favorite originals that used to live on nzee24 (& that many of you shockingly still remember!)."

NIKI added, "This project is without a doubt my most favourite thing I have ever made as an artist. It’s where younger me and current me meet and hang and have a fucking blast together. No words adequately convey how stupid proud I am of it & every part surrounding it (more on that later…) And in true Niki fashion, let me just start by telling you how it ends. Spoiler: it is *not* happily ever after. "Before" drops June 3rd."