NIKI delivers new single "Oceans & Engines"

"Oceans & Engines" is accompanied by a video directed by Isaac Ravishankara, and will feature on NIKI's second album Nicole with last month's lead outing "Before". The track was written by NIKI when she was 17, and was re-recorded for Nicole. She worked on the re-reccording with longtime collaborator Jacob Ray

"I wrote this song in 2016 when I was 17 experiencing the earth-shattering heartbreak of a first love moving away for good," NIKI says. "It is massively dramatic & long with a naïveté & innocence I look back on fondly now at 23. Like she had no idea about what was going to happen. Like the fact that after writing it in bed at ungodly hours of an 11th grade weeknight snacking on stale cereal she would eventually revisit the song and release it years later. Life can be quite cyclical at times and that has become painfully obvious throughout the process of re-working these songs that are some years old now. Can’t wait for you all to hear each one nestled in the plush & pillowy company of sister songs when the album drops in August but in the mean time, here’s a second snippet of my favourite thing I’ve made so far."

Nicole will follow 2020 debut album Moonchild, and will arrive in August.

On Instagram last month, NIKI wrote of the upcoming record, "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."