Rhaina Yasmin’s Magician EP Feels Like Holding Someone’s Heart in Your Hands

Every once in a while, an artist comes along with music that doesn’t try to impress you, it just finds you. Like a friend who sits beside you on a bad day and doesn’t say much, but somehow says everything. That’s exactly the energy of Rhaina Yasmin, the Las Vegas indie-rock/alt-folk storyteller whose new EP, Magician, feels like stumbling into a private diary you weren’t supposed to read… but now you’re quietly grateful you did.

Rhaina has always carried emotion like a second language. Her sound, soft folk textures stitched with indie-rock edges, comes across gentle at first, but it hits with a slow-burn catharsis that somehow leaves you lighter. And Magician, her five-song release, is basically a coming-of-age novel disguised as an EP: nostalgic, grief-soaked, hopeful, and desperate to believe in something bigger than the hurt.

“It’s about longing, fear, magic, everything that makes us human,” she shares. “I hope people find comfort expressing their deepest emotions in these songs.”

And honestly? You do.

A Tracklist That Feels Like a Full Emotional Cycle

1. “Your Daughter”

The EP opens like a whisper. Just guitar strings and Rhaina’s voice that’s soft enough to hush a room. It feels like she’s talking herself into believing she can make it, and somehow motivating you at the same time. Floating, warm, cloud-like.

2. “Little Moon”

Suddenly the world shifts. The guitars get stranger, the mood blooms into something almost otherworldly. Her vocals swell with a new confidence, like she’s pulling you into a dreamscape with its own moon and its own rules.

3. “Patchouli”

This one is the gut punch wrapped in softness. Back to delicate guitars, back to those angelic vocals that sound like they’re being held with both hands. Rhaina paints a moment from her life with uncanny intimacy, and you can’t pull away.

4. “Dagger”

Then she flips the room. “Dagger” hits with an upbeat, alt-rock spark - quicker cadence, sharper melodies, and a message that hits like… well, a dagger. She sings about how sometimes people just want to be loved, and how exhausting it is to keep fighting for it. It’s raw in a way most people feel but rarely say out loud.

5. “Magician”

The title track ends the EP like a quiet exhale. Soft, stripped back, honest in the way only Rhaina can be. It feels like the curtain closing, but gently - with that final line, “I’ll get by with the sleight of my hand,” echoing long after the music fades.

Written by Rhaina Yasmin and Andrew Caballero, and recorded with Zach Wright and Nick Ochoa, Magician ties all its emotions together into something both intimate and luminous — a spell, a sanctuary, and a soft rebellion against despair.

At its core, Magician is an EP about remembering who you were, grieving who you’ll never be again, and finding something hopeful in the space between. It’s tender, fearless, and weirdly comforting, like hearing your own thoughts sung back to you.

Rhaina doesn’t shy away from pain; she turns it into art. Into warmth. Into something quietly powerful.