17-year-old AKINE makes her mark with the striking potency of "Pray For The Prey"

On "Pray For The Prey", AKINE expertly references religious imagery with confident and assured statements of intent over a bed of syncopated beats. The resulting effect will strike right between the eyes with direct power, where AKINE's vocals shine with a potent urgency and a real feeling of genuine emotion.

The song captures AKINE's emotions and thoughts following the events of her childhood where she saw her family members become displaced by the war in home country of Ukraine. It sees her make mature comments on how she saw the people around her deal with the devastation and desperation that faced them, as she sings "I don’t believe in god / Nor his angels / Nor his disciples / He’s a stranger / He’s subliminal / Not my father, not my leader of all / Leaves the dirty to get dirtier / And wipes the clean."

It's part protest song and partly a moment of catharsis, as the driving beats build as AKINE's vocals grow in urgency, where emotional rawness weaves through the delivery and ultimate acts as a release from the struggle and pain.

Speaking on the track, AKINE says "'Pray for the Prey' came about at a time when my country was going through crisis with the Maidan protests and subsequent war. People in Ukraine tend to turn to religion and prayer when dealing with the unfortunate state of poverty and corruption rather than seeking concrete solutions. It was painful to see the country I love falling apart and my family suffering as a consequence. This song captures what I felt at that moment in time."