Magi Merlin

There's a special kind of kindred spirit that Magi Merlin makes music for; her fellow obsessives. Screw the soft launch. Magi (pronounced Mahd-j-eye) sings directly to the listener, face pressed up against the other side of the screen's glass. Through her propulsive, avant-garde form of Pop and "broken” R&B, she explores life's deep existential truths, tearing through imagination and genre like outfits ripped off a garment rack. Whether that be a Galliano tulle skirt for a quick studio session, lace wrist cuffs on a first date, or jungle-inspired splintered kick drums giving way to futuristic synth lines.

It was Audre Lorde who said,"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us." POWER HOUSE, Magi's newly released debut album, is exactly that, a recognition that each person, like the songs themselves, contains multitudes. An invitation to embrace every aspect of what makes us human, whether that be ego or compassion, to trust what is most essentially ours and to build outward from it. The idea that we are all so many different things and that they can all live in harmony at the same time.