VANDANA is an Indian born and raised art-pop musical creator who now lives in Brooklyn. Her latest irresistible single "This Hunt" is a track that feels less like a song and more like a ceremony cast in velvet and steel. Known for her self-coined aesthetic of ancient futurism, VANDANA merges the mythic and the modern, weaving industrial pulse, ceremonial rhythm, and haunting beauty into a sonic world where seduction meets danger.
With "This Hunt", VANDANA creates a magical moment which unfolds like a ritual in motion, circling the listener with cinematic menace and fevered elegance. Built on throbbing dark-lit percussion and mood-drenched synths, the track feels at once primal and otherworldly, evoking the twisted beauty of a flower that blooms in darkness. VANDANA’s voice, at once commanding and vulnerable, embodies both predator and prey, blurring the line between desire and destruction. Inspired by the Night Blooming Cereus, a flower that blooms once a year under total darkness, “This Hunt” becomes a parable about hunger: for power, for beauty, for permanence in an impermanent world. As VANDANA sings, “This hunt, this hunt / You can never have enough of it / It's careless arrogance / This insatiable hunt." The song wrestles with this paradox, finding ecstasy and ruin in equal measure.
Drawing comparisons to innovators like FKA twigs, Sevdaliza, Zola Jesus, and Björk, VANDANA nonetheless crafts something uniquely her own, a magnetic blend of mysticism and menace, lush emotion and sharp precision. “This Hunt” marks the opening act of her forthcoming full-length album, featuring collaborators including Marius de Vries, Cian Riordan, Tal Wilkenfeld, and Joey Waronker.
“This Hunt" continues to build her mythos, a darkly cinematic and deeply human exploration of power, appetite, and transcendence. It’s a work that doesn’t just invite you to listen; it dares you to surrender.
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