Music
Discover the sounds rattling around Maeve's head
The Cayman Islands-born artist performs tracks Eden and Martyr in this exclusive See. Hear. Now. session.
Arianna Broderick has always wanted to be a singer. When she was three or four, as she recalls in this See. Hear. Now. session, she stood up on a restaurant table and sang for the room full of strangers.
When a hurricane tore through her home in the Cayman Islands, the family started spending half their time in London. It was there she embarked on a music career. Reborn as Maeve, the 21-year-old began writing atmospheric alt-pop songs part-inspired by Massive Attack and Björk. She also learned production, so that she could achieve exactly the sound that was clicking, pulsing and echoing in her head.
Maeve recently released her debut EP, Beasts, from which you can watch her play Martyr and current single Eden. You might just recognise her dusky vocal from Tokio Myers’ cover of The Weeknd track, Angel. Listen out, too, for the found sounds that she feels give her music such a strong sense of place. What other artist has started a song with a sample of themselves on a broken-down boat in the Cayman Islands, floating their way to Rum Point?
Watch Maeve perform Eden and Martyr in the player at the top of the page.
