About Niki: Niki Becker's aggressive guitar playing has been compared to Ani Difranco, her voice has been compared to Jenny Lewis and her lyrics to Joni Mitchell. She's been called ballsy, prolific, engaging, insightful and fun. About Sea Salt: On Sea Salt, Niki to her folk sound to the next level. Fuller arrangements, crunchier guitars and stronger instrumentation were used to create a lush musical landscape: interweaving acoustic driven folk tunes, with sometimes whimsical, sometimes heavy electric guitars, kick drum stomping beats, ukuleles and mandolins. Lyrically connected, the songs have a theme of longing, loss, and generally trying to find one's way.