Maddie Ashman – announces her debut EP ‘Her Side’ The EP announcement is accompanied by new single “Waterlily”

Emerging British avant-pop artist and multi-instrumentalist Maddie Ashman announces her debut EP ‘Her Side’, out February 6th via AWAL. The EP announcement is accompanied by new single “Waterlily”, the fourth preview track to emerge from the project. To celebrate the EP release, Maddie will play a subterranean London headline show – solo – at The Brunel Museum on February 5th. Ticket presale begins on January 20th with general sale from the 22nd.

Now known for exploring microtonal music in uncanny, illusory yet accessible ways, Maddie explains the origins of the ‘Her Side’ EP; “I wanted a project that could express everything I wanted to explore: from breakbeats to choral, pop to classical. Turning away from the ‘normal’, ‘conventional’, ‘expected’, and towards the ‘unspoken’, ‘what ifs’ and ‘unexpected’”, in the process turning away from man-made equal temperament to embrace microtonal harmonies and alternative tuning systems to explore the liminal space between emotions, reality and perception.

On new single “Waterlily”, Maddie explains; “It’s about how sometimes doing what we are ‘meant to be doing’, as society has taught us to, feels completely wrong. It’s about putting on a smile day to day, masking feelings and suppressing dreams. It’s about doing what society has taught us to, putting stability and money ahead of our dreams.”

The 7-track EP also includes the late-2025 string of singles “Seraphim”, “Jaded”, and “In Autumn My Heart Breaks”. In October Maddie hit the road for a European support tour with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on their EU Rave Tour, where she joined the band on stage to play cello. In December she joined Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams at Fabric London for a live improvisational performance based on Ensemble Mi’s rendition of Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

‘Her Side’ EP Tracklisting
Rumours
Jaded
She Said
Seraphim
In Autumn My Heart Breaks
Waterlily
Behind Closed Eyes

PRE-SAVE THE ‘HER SIDE’ EP HERE