"It's beautiful, gentle, fresh, and just hipster enough" GREENROOMThe mixed trio NIKI NIKI has chosen to play demanding, dreamlike, synthetic music that is overflowing with emotion. Built on electro-minimalist convolutions, the eleven tracks of this debut album seek pure emotion, freed from the codes imposed by society. NIKI NIKI thus creates an androgynous, almost transgender pop. A kind of digital soul music. One might think of James Blake recruited by Portishead, with landscapes already vaguely sketched by other dreamers, from Cocteau Twins to Dead Can Dance, and M83. Yet NIKI NIKI succeeds in the challenge of sounding like no one else on first listen. Their universe remains singular. Timeless. A loophole of gentleness before returning to chaos.FOR FANS OF FISHBACH, KID FRANCESCOLI, CAMP CLAUDE