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Album

MOONCHILD

NIKI

About “MOONCHILD”

MOONCHILD is the debut album by Indonesian singer and songwriter Niki. The album was originally announced in 2019 and was supposed to be released at the end of 2019 but was delayed. The album was finally released on September 10, 2020 through 88rising.

On March 24th 2020 a new teaser was posted on NIKI’s Instagram and Twitter, after she archived all of her Instagram posts and blacked out her profile picture the day before.

“MOONCHILD” Q&A

  • Translations

  • What have the artists said about the album?

    This is my coming of age story…I grew up going to an international school in a non-English speaking country, and then spoke English around my friends and my teachers. And then going home [to my] Indonesian family, it was just a huge identity crisis…Now I’ve learned how to just accept me the way I am.

    – NIKI via Teen Vogue

    It’s my most wide-ranging bodywork so far. It’s my cohesive concept album…like listening to a storybook. It was my brainchild. I like fairy tales and sci-fi so it follows the character of a moonchild from top to bottom and witnesses her growth. My past work has been focused on young and puppy love, and this is centered around self-discovery and my personal journey growing as an artist, and as a human being.

    – NIKI via Harper’s BAZAAR

  • How has the artist come up with the album title?

    I came up with the idea for Moonchild when I was up at 3 A.M., writing a song and realizing this is a daily occurrence for me. I stay up all night but I feel just so much more energized and stimulated at night so I was like, ‘Wow, I truly am the moon…child.’ That kind of catalyzed my idea of, ‘What if there was this character called Moonchild?’ and ‘What if there was this parallel universe?’ and I started dreaming up this crazy concept that I turned into this 10-song project.

    – NIKI via Forbes

  • Why the artist changed her hair color to platinum blonde?

    In an interview via Mustang FM, NIKI said:

    I’m trying to match the color of the moon, it was honestly the biggest secret for like a month. I don’t know if you noticed, but everytime I posted a story, it was always my forehead up, I just had to keep that a secret and it was so hard but here we are today.

  • Why are there no features on the album?

    In an interview via Mustang FM, NIKI said:

    I think it’s just a personal statement of mine and that’s like, you know this is my art, I wrote every single song on that album, and it’s very much about my story so I didn’t think that it needed anybody else, not right now at least. I’m open to collab in the future, just not right now.

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Album Credits

More NIKI albums