There comes a time in a nightmare when you force yourself to jolt back into reality, fearing the consequences of what lies beyond if you were to keep your eyes closed and enter the murky parts of your mind where only the most sinister things roam.

JAZMIN BEAN represents that dark part of your psyche. If we have grown accustomed to care-free euphoria pop becoming commonplace in the charts, then prepare for everything to be shaken up. Jazmin is here, and they’re about to mess with what everyone is familiar with.

They might boast one seriously assured fanbase (think over 440k+ Instagram followers, 460k+ Spotify monthly listeners, and a collective 40m+ YouTube views), but there’s a complexity to Jazmin Bean, as both a person and a performer, that the artist themself (Jazmin is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) is still reckoning with. The musician and creative knows you might consider their appearance intense – think shocking horror make-up; bleached and pastel-dyed hair; outfits akin to comic book-asylum couture – but the line that divides their personality and their practise is, in fact, paper thin. “I don’t want people to think I’m putting on a costume,” they insist. What you see in front of you is what you’ll discover if you encounter them in real life too.

The longer you spend trying to read into who Jazmin Bean is, the less likely you are to understand fully what they are about. The trick is to accept it, sign the dotted line and join in on the wild, mesmerising journey they will lead you on. What’s important is what’s in front of you now, and the art that stems from their fascinating, earth-shifting presence.