Magi Merlin

Magi Merlin’s music drifts between weight and levity with exceptional ease, turning from the nuances of intimacy to the realities of capitalism and womanhood. There's no sheen of perfection here, no forced pop polish. Through her propulsive, avant-garde form of R&B she explores love, desire and growth and life’s deep existential truths, moving between splintered kick drums, futuristic synth lines and jungle breakbeats.

Her 2022 EP Gone Girl is music that feels genuinely alive, animated by a voice that blends unruly maximalism and earned wisdom, gliding across the chaos with a precision that only comes from deep intuition. A surprise EP, A Weird Little Dog, followed, arriving as she opened for Nubya Garcia across the US, with festival appearances at Osheaga and Festival d’été de Québec and recent European support with Yaya Bey.

Outside of the music, this spring she made her acting debut in Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks, which screened at TIFF and SXSW. POWER HOUSE, her debut album releasing on July 10, is a recognition that each person is a powerhouse, an invitation to embrace multiplicity and the many things that make us human. The album moves through the female experience with both fury and precision. Magi writes from trust, leaning into instinct rather than mapping out the outcome, producing what she calls Broken R&B — an idiosyncratic approach accountable to no existing template. Over the last decade she has co-written and co-produced largely alongside Funkywhat.