Magi Merlin [pronounced Mahd-j-eye] calls her sound ‘Broken R&B’, but really, it’s whatever she feels like breaking down and rebuilding in the studio. Indie Pop, ’90s house, RnB to Hip-hop and Jazz, a collage where the glue often is a masterful use of harmonies and a clever juxtaposition of lyrical lightness and depth.
After her 2022 EP Gone Girl, the Montreal-based artist started a tour with Noga Erez and a LATAM date with Omar Apollo. Ever since, Merlin has kept busy, working on new music, releasing singles and a smaller project: A Weird Little Dog, which dropped as she began a US tour supporting saxophonist Nubya Garcia. She then reworked IDLES’ “POP POP POP”, flipped it into a club banger which she performed live for Glamcult TV. She’s made continuous festival appearances at Osheaga, Festival d’Été de Québec, Treefort, Reeperbahn, Montréal Jazz Festival while simultaneously making her acting debut in Mile End Kicks (with Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick and Juliette Gariepy).
