NIIA V: REDEFINING JAZZ WITH AUDACITY AND GRACE

WHAT IS JAZZ, REALLY? For Niia, the answer arrives this October 10, when her long-awaited album V drops via Candid Records — a daring, deeply personal project that rewrites what modern jazz can sound like.

Forget nostalgia and standards: V is Niia’s unfiltered vision of jazz, merging emotional storytelling, electronic textures, and live musicianship into something raw, elegant, and undeniably new. Backed by forward-thinking collaborators — Spencer Zahn, Lawrence Rothman, Chloe Angelides — she turns jazz into a language for this generation: intimate, experimental, and bold.

NIIA V:

From the spellbinding opener fucking happy to the cinematic Ronny Cammareri (a chaotic love letter to Nicolas Cage’s Moonstruck character), V pulses with contradictions. It’s beauty and bruise, self-love and self-loathing, humor and heartbreak — the kind of contradictions that define truth.

Even the cover refuses conformity: Niia, posed with a heretic fork — a symbol of rebellion against artistic orthodoxy. “If I’m going to make my statement in this genre,” she says, “I need to be a disruptor.”

She’s been disrupting for years. From her acclaimed debut I (2017), praised by The New York Times as one of the best releases of the year, to the ambient intimacy of OFFAIR: Mouthful of Salt, Niia has consistently blurred lines between jazz, pop, and avant-soul.

On V, she dives deeper:

• Pianos and Great Danes — sleek, sensual club-jazz built atop drum-and-bass.

• Throw My Head Out the Window — a shimmering blend of synths, hooks, and sax.

• Angel Eyes — the haunting finale, where Niia’s voice and Benny Bock’s piano bring the standard into a new century.

With V, Niia isn’t returning to jazz — she’s reclaiming it.Her voice, husky yet tender, carries decades of tradition into the now, turning vulnerability into rebellion.

“The good and bad live side by side,” she says. “That contradiction is the truth.”