Nikita delivers an ode to fleeting love with "No One's Gonna" [Review]

On her new single "No One's Gonna," New York indie pop artist Nikita offers a bright, heartening meditation on love at its most tender and ephemeral. Skating between downtempo cool and shimmering synthpop textures, the track hangs in the moment right before love complicates things when presence, openness, and connection are all that matter. "No One's Gonna" is bright and uplifting, warm and deeply human. The song is the second from what will be Nikita's new EP, "Suspend," and comes on the heels of a powerful live performance for an enraptured Nublu crowd. It's the kind of song that seems intimate and universal at the same time, a snapshot of emotional clarity, before the static of doubt comes calling."

Anchored entirely by mellow, dreamy synths and feather-light production, "No One's Gonna" offers you the chance to enter a world of stillness. Nikita's voice is hushed, almost confessional, but rather conspicuously self-aware. There's a little ache tucked into the softness, as if she already knows the moment she's singing about won't last but has decided to make a note of it anyway. "This song is about leaving an interaction with someone you love and feeling full," Nikita says. "Walking away and recognizing your love for that person and what they mean to you, regardless of anything that could jeopardize it." That sentiment, raw, lovely, and almost achingly honest, determines every beat and breath on the track.

Brought up in a house full of music and writing songs since the age of ten, Nikita has a broad brush of influences to blend together, instinctively combining the form of chamber music with the grit of '90s alternative and the soft sensuality of modern indie pop. On "No One's Gonna," she turns those layers into something vintage and of the moment. In a time where connection frequently happens with a catch, Nikita dares to remain in the warmth of the present. "No One's Gonna" captures a sensation. And in that way, it demonstrates that she's a voice worth watching in the indie pop landscape.

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