British Indian multi-instrumentalist Pryti recently released a new single titled ‘Corner of Midnight’ and, today, she’s revealed the official music video for the track. Pryti says “Corner of Midnight has a healing frequency like Zero (released earlier this year). It’s about wanting a long lost love back. I had the title corner of midnight in my head for years as I was watching the series Night Agent. I wrote the song about Peter and Rose – it was originally a ballad but when I got in the studio with Justin Hill I was like “it’s got to sound big” and the song became something more. It’s dedicated to Night Agent fans who love the Peter and Rose relationship.”
‘Corner of Midnight’ demonstrates Pryti’s knack for telling a story and weaving her personal experiences into the fabric of her music. She crafts pure melodic lines backed by epic soundscapes, that are built to be sung along to on the biggest of stages. Influenced by metalcore but involving much more spirituality and often evoking a sense of melancholy, Pryti’s recently taken to describing her music as “melancore”.
The two singles Pryti has now released this year are her first new music since the 2022 album ‘Searching for Now, Lost in Again’. Of ‘Zero’, she said: “My psychic told me during a reading that Spirit was saying to put this particular frequency into my music, especially Zero, as it would help heal me and others. I didn’t even tell her what the songs I was going to record were called. When I was getting the first mixes back I couldn’t stop crying. It’s very cathartic. I built illusions for myself and Lord Shiva tore them down.”
“I write my music for people who don’t fit in,” Pryti is proud to admit. In addition to her powerhouse vocals, the singer-songwriter plays bass, guitar and piano, taking cues from artists like Architects, Deftones, Finch, Linkin Park and Paramore all the way through to the more pop-influenced likes of Now, Now, Halsey and Sarah McLachlan. This eclectic mix shows up in Pryti’s melancholic music, which innovatively blends alternative, emo and metal elements with an electronic edge.
Pryti’s debut EP, 2013’s ‘Welcome to Pariahville’, got a shout out from Architects’ Sam Carter in Kerrang! – on a day where Pryti hadn’t been sure about continuing in music. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is a sign: keep going!’” she recalls. Pryti released her debut album, ‘Tales of a Melancholic’, in 2015, following it up with her 2022 sophomore LP ‘Searching for Now, Lost in Again’, which saw her experimenting with genre. Along the way, she’s earned acclaim from a plethora of media including Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, BBC Radio 1 Introducing Rock, and even Rolling Stone India.
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