Sugarplum Elegy emerges from the same urgent, unfiltered creative impulse that first sparked work on NIKI’s third studio album, Buzz, a pop sound rooted in the Philippines that carries the same sharp, tender intentionality that defines every piece of music crafted for the project. What eventually grew into the fully realized collection of work that is Buzz started not with a polished plan or a calculated framework, but with an urgent quake from the innermost core of its creator, a quiet roar of feeling that demanded to be turned into song, and that same raw, unshakable core pulses through Sugarplum Elegy just as clearly as it does across the full suite of music that makes up the final album.