Riki Live Full Concert | Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO | 02.21.2024

Riki is the Los Angeles-based dark synth-pop outfit commandeered by the mysterious Niff Nawor, a visual artist and musician active in the deathrock/anarcho-punk scenes of the California Bay Area (formerly a member of Crimson Scarlet), before founding her solo endeavor as Riki in 2017. Like all the most elusive pop, Riki’s songcraft is simultaneously direct and oblique, dynamic and detached, shifting from sparkling chorus to elliptical outro according to its own poetic logic. She characterizes her lyrical muse as “very much what’s going on in my life, things I wanted to say but didn’t have the platform.” This subcurrent of dream fulfillment animates the melodies with a specificity and immediacy that transcends her pantheon of 80’s influences: from Saâda Bonaire and Strawberry Switchblade to Bryan Ferry, Bananarama, and beyond. ——— https://riki.bandcamp.com https://www.daisrecords.com/collectio... https://post-punk.com/let-your-heart-... https://www.weirdomusicforever.com/we...