Red Ribbon – “High”

Today LA-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Danner, aka Red Ribbon, shares the haunting single and video for “High” off upcoming Planet X out June 11 via Danger Collective Records.

It could just be about drugs, or it can be about whatever in your life makes you high. I lost my first love to an opioid addiction and I was a user of opiates in my youth. My whole life I’ve been trying to figure out what one can do to expand their consciousness outside of drug use. There’s a little bit of fear around feeling good in this song as well. If I follow this thread of happiness, will I lose my way?

Red Ribbon

Danner’s voice is reminiscent of a darker Harriet Wheeler and the song brings to mind 90s trip-hop gone acoustic, despite Danner citing Billie Holiday and American folk music as a reference. Produced by Randall Dunn (Marissa Nadler, Sunn O))), Planet X explores radical softness, faces life’s fragility, and Danner’s Seattle grunge roots.

Pre-order Planet X on Bandcamp.

Photo by Kelsey Hart.