NIKI’s songwriting has long been anchored in a radical, unfiltered intimacy, a creative signature that has shaped every step of her career, from her earliest independent releases to the body of work that would coalesce into her third studio album, Buzz. That project, the collection that the pop sound Hallway Weather emerges from, did not spring forth fully formed, but grew from an urgent, unignorable quake that originated in the innermost core of NIKI’s being, the first quiet signal that she was ready to translate the lessons, joys, and missteps of the years leading up to that moment into a body of work that would capture the full scope of her evolution as an artist and a person.