Niagara Falls is the first solo album released by Greg Hawkes, best known as an original member of the Cars.

Hawkes plays all instruments (with one exception—see below), with programmed drums and multiple layers of keyboard parts, as well as rhythm guitar.

Tuneful and not overly experimental, it sounds (despite the instrumental nature of the material) very much like the Shake It Up era of the Cars.

"Jet Lag" and "Voyage Into Space" are the only tunes to feature lyrics: "Jet lag / It's a real drag" and "Voyage into space / Check out some other place"—sometimes processed through a vocoder.

"Voyage Into Space" also features the artist's wife, Elaine Hawkes, on flute.