Santigold has shared a new single ‘High Priestess’, on which she said she was looking for “the future sound of punk rock” – scroll down the page to hear it now.The track marks the artist’s first solo release since her 2018 mixtape ‘I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions’.‘High Priestess’ started life as a collaboration between Ray Brady and Boyz Noize, according to the star.
Psymun and Gayngs’ Ryan Olson joined the mix as the song grew.“I had started working on this beat and I didn’t have anything in mind for a topic, I just knew I wanted to do a sort of rap punk song (as dangerous as that sounds),” Santigold said in a statement. “My buddy Ray Brady and I started working on something, trying to add in all the elements that made sense, kicks, subs, new wave synths.
Boys Noize ended up bringing something super cool that really built the song and made me get even more excited about it.“It was coming along quickly, until it wasn’t.
The punk rock energy, the angst, that I wanted to come across wasn’t quite there. I tried adding guitar and a live drum kit, and that was a big red buzzer ‘X.’ I ended up tagging in Psymun (Simon Christensen) who brought in Ryan Olson, and they brought the final missing element.
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