NIIA Releases New Hauting Music Video "Pianos and Great Danes" From New Album "V" Out Now

October 29, 2025 - Today, LA-based vocalist, pianist, and composer Niia released the haunting new video for “Pianos and Great Danes,” from her genre-defying fifth studio album V (October 10 via Candid Records). Reinforcing her reign as the ultimate goth jazz princess, the 3-minute-long music video is a masterpiece of haunting cinematography featuring flashing, grainy edits mirroring uninhibited desires. The club-jazz anthem explores sex as an escape with an irresistible drum ‘n’ bass groove.

• Listen to “Pianos and Great Danes” HERE
• Watch the official music video HERE

“The memory of how this came together is blurry,” shares Niia. “Somewhere between a joke and a vision — “sexy demon” got said, and everything after that was impulse. A crossbow. An empty building. A piano. A Great Dane. Just friends following whatever felt right. No plan, just instinct and collaboration.”

Bridging the gap between traditional nostalgia and the complexities of modern emotional life, the surreal song is “closer to a film score than anything from the Great American Songbook,” she continues. “Written like a monologue with chord changes, it leans into space and narrative, letting the harmony suggest the emotional shifts. Embracing emotional residue, there’s a chaotic feeling where the only way out is to melt through the track.”

A sharp, soulful exploration of desire, heartbreak, and freedom, V is a culmination of years spent experimenting at the intersection of tradition and reinvention. Co-produced by Spencer Zahn (Dawn Richard, Empress Of) and Lawrence Rothman (Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Kali Uchis). Living in the tension between control and collapse, the pivotal record seamlessly blends the electronic textures of experimental pop with the thrilling interplay that only live, jazz-rooted musicianship can bring. The arrangements stretch–sometimes restrained, sometimes theatrical–but always with intention.

As a classically trained musician who grew up watching Italian cinema, “I pulled from the harmonic language of jazz pianists like Bill Evans and from the psychological atmosphere of film scores,” explains Niia. That combined inspiration and influence is most evident in the songs “Angel Eyes,” a reimagined version of the 1946 jazz standard by Matt Dennis & Earl B. Brent, and “Ronny Cammareri,” a slow-burning instrumental titled after Nicolas Cage’s character in Moonstruck.