mxmtoon
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Mon 28 April 2025 – The Academy, Dublin
Tues 29 April 2025 – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tickets on sale Friday 25 October at 10am
www.ulsterhall.co.uk & www.ticketmaster.ie
Since she was 17-years-old, mxmtoon has made exquisitely catchy pop songs that capture the kind of complex and tender feelings we often keep hidden from the world. mxmtoon has just announced her headline gig in The Academy, Dublin on Monday 28 April 2025 and Tuesday 29 April 2025 in Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tickets on sale Friday 25 October at 10am
Over the years, the Oakland native and now Nashville-based artist’s unguarded self-expression has earned her a devoted global following, led to collaborations with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen and Noah Kahan, and propelled her through an expansive career that’s also included hosting a podcast and authoring a pair of graphic novels. Now 24, mxmtoon found her relationship to songwriting profoundly transformed in the making of her third album liminal space, a body of work informed by a period of major upheaval and uncertainty in her family life. When met with a bigger and bolder sound threaded with elements of folk and indie-rock—achieved thanks to her all-female creative team —the result is an up-close exploration of what she sums up as “the messy, dark, complicated, and also very beautiful chaos inherent in mother-daughter relationships.”
The follow-up to rising—a 2022 LP praised by The Guardian as “the smart teen-movie soundtrack gen Z never had”—liminal space finds mxmtoon working with co-producers Carrie K (Noah Kahan, Suki Waterhouse) and Chloe Kraemer (The Japanese House, Wet Leg) and bringing a newfound sense of agency to the album’s creative direction. “In the past I’ve had this perception of myself as not being capable of leading the charge in the studio, but this time I finally felt ready to step into that role,” says Maia. “Because of that, this record feels the most true to me out of anything I’ve ever done.” Mixed by Laura Sisk (Lana Del Rey, Troye Sivan) and mastered by Heba Kadry (Björk, Beach House), liminal space emerged from a creative environment in which she felt entirely free to follow her instincts while pushing through certain deep-rooted fears.
Mainly recorded at Carrie’s home studio in Nashville, liminal space ultimately finds mxmtoon returning to the insular approach of her early work (including the many songs she self-recorded in her family’s guest room and posted to SoundCloud) while shaping each track with a newly heightened confidence and clarity of vision. “I remember being in a session for this record and wondering if I should ask my co-writer if the melody I’d just written was good enough—and then telling myself, ‘If it feels good, let’s just trust it and move on,’” she says. “Throughout the whole process, I was very conscious of allowing myself to sit with the songs and make sure that I loved them as they were, rather than showing them to other people right away and letting their opinions weigh too heavily against my own.” In a particularly meaningful shift from her previous projects, she also deliberately held off on sharing the album with her family. “In the past I’ve always let my parents into the process every step of the way,” says Maia. “With this record there were certain songs I was nervous to share with my mom, and I wanted to make sure to show her in person instead of just sending off a text. But at the end of the day, she loves this record more than anything I’ve ever made, which is so encouraging to me. It showed me that something can be so scary and overwhelming in the moment, but then turn into something beautiful in the end.”
By the time she’d completed her most emotionally intense and ambitious work to date, mxmtoon arrived at a more elevated perspective on the infinitely strange experience of making her way through the world. “For a while I wanted these songs to sound like I was resolved and had worked out the answers to everything, but eventually I realized I can’t expect that of myself,” says Maia. “I hope when people hear the album it helps them to see that understanding yourself is a never ending process, and that you deserve the time and space to be lost in it. It’s a little terrifying but it’s also really freeing, and I think those two things can absolutely exist together as one.”
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