Mai Kino

Mai Kino

Mai Kino is a Portuguese singer-songwriter from Lisbon who later moves to London. She works with pop and indie elements, and her background includes multimedia art and dance. Her music combines pillowy vocals with dreamy production, and she often uses multisensory visual imagery to accompany her sound.

Debut EP: Dopamine

Her debut EP, Dopamine, is a four-track release built around personal experiences and emotions. It includes the title track and Lungs, both mixed by David Wrench, who has worked with The XX, FKA twigs and Jungle. The EP presents snapshots of her inner life and explores modern disconnection, the desire to escape difficult states, and ideas of spiritual transcendence.

Themes and style

Kino describes Dopamine as concerned with complicated internal states. In her writing, images can hold several meanings at once, including death, drugs, love and spiritual release. Her work is presented as intimate and reflective, with a sound that is shaped by both music and visual imagination.