Magi Merlin’s debut album, POWER HOUSE, out today

With POWER HOUSE, Magi Merlin said screw the soft launch. Built from layered, distorted production and vocals that resist form, it's an exploration of the internal architecture we all inhabit: the conflicting rooms of anger, fear, vanity, and ultimately, a reclaimed sense of power. It is a recognition that each person contains multitudes, and that they can all live in harmony at the same time.

In addition to being available on all music services, POWER HOUSE will be released on vinyl in five different versions: the Magi Merlin (Bandcamp), Rough Trade (USA & UK), HHV (Germany), and Bonsound editions, all available for pre-order now. Magi Merlin will be touring both Europe and North America this summer and fall, including headline dates in Montreal (Foufounes Électriques, September 17) and Toronto (Adelaide Hall, October 14); see the list below for all tour dates.

Written from her bisexual/ENM perspective and her broader experience of existing as a woman in systems designed to flatten her, the album navigates the contradictions of seeking validation in both platonic and romantic contexts, deconstructing the "plastic confidence" we're taught to wear. Merlin operates as co-producer and creative director, ensuring the visual world mirrors the music's refusal to soften. It's designed as a ‘living universe’ where every element, from sound to image to performance, is intentional and self-defined. This is her philosophy: real change starts small but sounds immense.

Throughout POWER HOUSE, Magi refuses to be flattened. She buries self-kindness under distorted synth. She won't resolve tension into a chorus. The armour she wears is declaration, not defence. Her music splinters—jungle breaks bleeding into futuristic synths, '90s house fractured by raw vocals. Her visual world is industrial, deliberate, refusing the consistency that makes things recognisable. She operates entirely outside of categories, including the alternative ones. POWER HOUSE is what it sounds like when someone refuses every uniform.

The singles leading to POWER HOUSE have garnered international acclaim from BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Clash, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, KCRW, KEXP, Wonderland, Libération, France Inter, FIP, CBC, Radio-Canada, Exclaim! and RANGE. This June also saw Magi as one of the cover stars for Glamcult’s Noise Issue.

About Magi Merlin

There's a special kind of kindred spirit that Magi Merlin makes music for; her fellow obsessives. 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.

Over the last years, she has written and co-composed largely alongside Funkywhat, a collaborator with whom she has built a shared musical language. Magi’s alternative forms of pop and R&B are about as high-definition as one can imagine, without sacrificing sensuousness and emotion. Her 2022 EP Gone Girl is music that feels alive, animated by a voice that blends unruly maximalism and earned wisdom. It sent her on tour with Noga Erez and on an electric performance in Mexico City in support of Omar Apollo. A surprise EP in 2025, A Weird Little Dog, brought a deepened emphasis to her experimental style and gave rise to “Broken R&B”, a genre she named and owns entirely, less a marketing category than an honest account of how she works, her art direction and visual world as idiosyncratic and charged as the music itself. Soon after, she opened for Nubya Garcia across the US, with festival appearances at Osheaga, Festival d'été de Québec, where she opened for Ty Dolla $ign, and most recently a European support run with Yaya Bey. Outside of music, she made her acting debut in 2026 with Chandler Levack's Mile End Kicks, alongside Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, and Juliette Gariépy, which screened at TIFF and SXSW.

Follow Magi Merlin: Instagram / TikTok / YouTube / Bandcamp

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