Magi Merlin’s newest tune is the meaningful, emotionally-charged banger, ‘Pissed Black Girl’. The track treats us to crunchy chords that float above a side-chained bass line and an insistent four-to-the-floor bass drum pattern. Magi Merlin’s voice itself has a smooth, instantly recognisable tone that is the perfect way to balance out the grit of the R&B-inspired accompaniment. “I wrote this song summer 2020. I was made to really look at my identity as a Black woman and what that identity means to the people I surround myself with,” she explains.”I didn’t realize a lot of the people I had around me at the time that identified as progressive, leftist and “allies” were not as supportive as they made themselves out to be.” Check out her EP, Gone Girl, on May 27th, 2022. -Dan Peeke