Ni Maxine's debut EP, Mother's Arms, is an intimate journey through darkness into light - a soulful reckoning with identity, generational trauma, and the healing power of family and home. Drawing on jazz, soul, and highlife, Maxine crafts songs that speak to anyone searching for belonging, confronting mental health, or learning to stand unapologetically in their truth.

Threads run through this sublime, soulful 4 tracker that taps into the ancestral cosmos with it's musings on time, peace and knowledge. Framed musically around the jazzy elements of 90's trip-hop and the neo-soul movement of the early 2000's this reaches backwards and forwards, finding paths through to smoked-out blue-note back rooms of 50's yet moving up the elevator to the futurist sounds of now. Ni Maxine's has assembled a gang of musical collaborators who totally 'get' her super-soulful voice which is layered with emotional heft and depth. An impressive EP that conveys REAL soul and has that laid-backness that grooves alongside some lush production, perfect for adding to those slow DJ sets. If you feel Sade, Michael Kiwanuka, Skye Edwards or Andy Bey then you'll be certain to love this

By Matt