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Tell us about your album High Priestess
High Priestess almost feels like a coming of age for me . It ’ s my debut album and is a collection of what I know to be my most authentic work as an artist and producer to date . Part of it is lived experience , part of it is the exploration or / and embodiment of different archetypes ( Goddess , Empress , Queen of Coins ) but all of it is my truest heart ! I wrote , produced and recorded a lot of this album on my own during the course of the pandemic . This is also the first time I focused fully and properly on authenticity over sheer perfection ... which is where I think the magic will always lie !
Take us through each of the songs and the story behind them
Well , the album opens with Clutch - a sensual and cheeky reclamation of my sensuality and sexuality . At the time that I wrote Clutch I was surrounded by men that consistently fetishised and objectified me . Clutch was a response to all of that - a clear statement : my body and my pleasure belong only to me . We then come to Boomerang - a bridgeburning song . I wrote this about an ex-partner who took me for a ride during and after our relationship . I wrote this during the pandemic as a way to release the anger and frustration I felt when I drew boundaries with this person and was met with disrespect . It ’ s a reminder that your actions speak louder than words , and that no one is ever truly irreplaceable . It was my way of solidifying the ties I was cutting with this person .

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We come now to Farewell - which feels like the other side of the same coin as Boomerang , although I wrote Farewell several years before writing Boomerang and they sound nothing alike . Farewell is the emotional turmoil that I faced in knowing that I had to let go because I deserve so much more and better , while still loving deeply .
DITK - Dancing In The Kitchen - is a song I wrote while deep in the angst and commotion it portrays sonically . I was finally free of the story of my abuse from when I was only a child , but I was still rediscovering what safety in my body and in my home meant to me . I wrote DITK from this space of questing and anguish .
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