Dancing Between the Deep and the Divine: Maijah’s “Sinking/Floating”

July 19, 2025

Dancing Between the Deep and the Divine: Maijah’s “Sinking/Floating”

In a world that rushes by too quickly and stammers too slowly, Maijah's Sinking/Floating appears like a mirror held up to the frantic mind. Out July 18, 2025, as a two-track mini EP, Sinking/Floating is the opening incantation to Siren Season—a record which usurps the soundtrack to the cycle of depression, dopamine, and limbo in between. Sinking/Floating doesn't merely play; it spirals. With cinematic specificity and pop savvy, Maijah shatters the duality of neurodivergence—the heaviness of bedrot and the shock of instantaneous passion—with unsettling accuracy. It's a loopable epiphany for night owls who analyze at midnight, daydreamers, and all of us suspended between sinking and floating.

Sinking, plods through the dense fog of inertia. It's where coffee is a lifeline, scrolling is sedation, and cleaning a room is a mountain climb. Maijah's voice is a velvet rope that hauls listeners into lines that burn with recognition: distraction masquerading as survival, and the weight of a world that comes to feel too heavy to bear. But despite the desperation that is overwhelming, the outro crashes through with suggestions of energy back—bidding Floating to fly. It's a transition so effortless it's like drawing breath for the first time in an eternity.

Floating detonates like firecrackers in the chest—the rush of stimulation after an eternity of blankness. In throbbing pop-electronica fervor, it's a battle cry smeared with restraint. In this track, Maijah isn't lying. The high point is beautiful, but fleeting. Lyricals like "Mama I fixed it now, put the bad thoughts into timeout" are hopeful delusion presented as burnout dressed as victory. And when the strings re-torture us in their entirety, familiar, the pendulum begins anew. What Maijah offers isn't resolution—it's realism, brutally beautiful and kissed with stardust.

For all who have ridden out the pendulum swing of loss, ADHD, or illness, Sinking/Floating is a two-part epiphany. A tip of the hat to Billie Eilish, RAYE, and The Neighbourhood, Maijah draws her "Main Character Music" nearer, improves it. With more than 20 million streams and a solar system of inspiration orbiting around her—Lana, Amy, Jhené—Maijah ensnares something greater than music. She weaves spells. This is not a score—a record—it is a circle, a tale, a siren song to all who ride the waves of the dark to shimmer.