About This Album
妮基, who is also credited professionally under the stage name NIKI, hails from the Philippines, and presents their full-length album Backburner, a collection that falls under the broad umbrella of Music/Other, a classification that rejects the narrow, often rigid genre boxes that most recorded music is sorted into for commercial and critical framing. Too often, recorded music is expected to align with the sonic and structural tropes of established genres, each with their own set of unwritten rules about what sounds, themes, and approaches qualify for inclusion, and an album sorted into Music/Other pushes back against that expectation, refusing to be boxed in by assumptions about what a release from an artist based in the Philippines should sound like, what ideas it should explore, or what audiences it should cater to.
