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Pop, as a genre that can wrap the quiet intensity of unformed potential into something accessible and deeply resonant, anchors this sound from the Philippines, tying the work titled Before to the larger creative arc that would bloom into NIKI’s third studio album, Buzz. What would become Buzz started with an urgent quake from the innermost core of her being, that first quiet rumble of change that precedes any big shift, and Before captures that exact split second before the world tilts into something new, the exact pause that NIKI centers in her explanation of the album’s name. Her songwriting remains as intimate as ever across every part of the body of work that makes up Buzz, and the same commitment to unvarnished, personal truth that defines the full album is present in the core of Before, which exists as that first spark of the impulse that would grow into the full, layered record.
