Tanners' "Holy Water" is an extraordinary psych-disco belter

Magic practically bounces off of every single note as Tanners claws you downwards into the underwater disco, a surly place of desire and decadence where she ushers "I wanna feel you dive into my deep sea / I can be your sanctuary, baby".

Disco ball synths are the meal of the day as the track faultlessly guides you around her aqueous world before deep-diving into the abyss, a central image for Tanners who explains "One of the first visual places I go when starting a song concept is water. A place so unfathomably vast and dark, yet so quiet and comforting. I struggled with craaaazy bad anxiety as a kid (still do) and one of my first coping mechanisms was finding a "happy place" which was always at the beach.

Tanners is the moniker for New York based producer, Tanner Peterson, and she is an artist that is deeply passionate about encouraging other women to take the lead on the production of their songs in the way that she has. Having studied Music Technology at NYU and engineering other artists' records, she found that she was just as capable as an artist as she was an audio-engineer, and, thus, her debut single "Holy Water" was born.

Explaining the inherent infatuation that the envelops the song and how she wrote it in the first place, Tanners says "When we sat down to write this song in particular, I was thinking a lot about these two Neil Krug photo series called "Pale Fire' and "Rose Syrup" as a visual reference for a feeling I wanted to convey. Around the time we wrote this I was feeling really lonely and so desperately wanted to feel connected to someone. There's something electrifying about being in the ocean with a lover or partner. You're in a space so intimate yet so connected to the entire ocean simply by floating in its waters. And I think that's what I was really craving... So essentially, this song is kind of like a metaphor for that feeling when you're with someone and you want to be completely enveloped in every part of their being that you could almost swim in them."

This is a wholly exciting debut from an artist who has only just begun her creative journey and seems fully capable of writing elegant pop songs that have something very special about them.