With both her debut single and her chosen name, Priestess makes a bold entrance. The project of musician Kate Fleur Young, recently released track 'Distractions' is a firm statement of intent.
Created in collaboration with producers James Mottershead and Jack Drewry, 'Distractions' opens with a foreboding acoustic guitar, leaving space for Young's voice to warm things up. Eventually, the guitar drops away, leaving a slow electronic bassline that comes on like the tide going out, before a rush of electronics and the intense peak of the song and Young's vocal performance.
She describes her sound as "the unfolding of my experience being expressed through my music". There's certainly a great deal piled into just this one song. If she's got more like this, then she could be a very special artist indeed.
Listen to 'Distractions' here: