Eclectic and versatile artist TATYANA continues to tease her upcoming debut EP, Shadow On The Wall, with her latest electro-pop offering “OOT”. Meaning “Only One Time”, “OOT” is a charming ode to living for the moment and seizing your own life to the very best of your abilities. As expected, it’s full of zeal and spritely energy that’s just the medicine for the gloom surrounding the continuing state of the world. With the aspirational refrain “you only get one life,” TATYANA presents a euphoric mantra that’s particularly resonant in the current climate.

Musically, there’s a clever mixture of instrumentals and devices that create a really textured soundscape. Here for the fun, TATYANA makes autotune sound positively cool when it kicks in as the electronic drums drop. The added layers of clapping hands and cheering in the background give “OOT” a real cathartic release.

When speaking about the inspiration and driving force behind the track, TATYANA shared: “I wrote “OOT” as an anthem for summoning good energy. When Issy Wharton and I made the video we wanted it to have witchy vibes – girls casting spells and dancing. It’s a celebration of play and feminine friendship.”

This “witchy” vibe is carried into fruition delightfully. The accompanying video, courtesy of director Issy Wharton, appears almost Shakespearean in its display, with TATYANA appearing like a garden nymph, twizzling around her garden. It calls to mind the faeries and magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, if it was set in present-day London.

There’s also a 90’s energy emanating from the DIY aesthetic of the video. It’s reminiscent of the way in which you’d make videos of yourself singing and dancing with your girlfriends when you were a child. The costuming of the video also plays on this 90’s nostalgia. We see TATYANA in a spiked crown, dancing around in a lurid mesh dress and a vibrant yellowy-green top. It feels homemade, playful and fun, encapsulating the frivolity of childhood. The colour palette emphasizes this joyous feeling. It’s staggeringly luminous and beautifully contrasts nature and the urban backdrop of London as they dance on the balcony.

To reduce TATYANA to the label of “artist” is almost a disservice. As well as being a singer and producer, she has been trained as a classical harpist which has, in turn, bolstered her career and taken it to varied new heights. Having lived in Holland, Russia, Singapore, and Boston, TATYANA has made eclectism and crossover a major factor in her work.

Her debut single “Wild Card,” which was released back in March, marked the beginning of her musical journey, one that she had been building up to since studying at Berklee College of Music. Her latest offering, “Shadow On The Wall,” signals the announcement of her debut EP of the same name.

About this new release, TATYANA commented: “‘Shadow On The Wall’ is a digital love letter. With this song and lyric video, I wanted to explore sincerity in the age of internet romance. It’s everything I can’t say in a text or a message.” These subliminal declarations are here translated into trilling chimes and delicate textures. When combined with TATYANA’s silken smooth voice, the effect is one of a calming nature, despite the throbbing bass that underpins the track.

As expected, it’s a genre-blending offering, one that seems to encapsulate all of her influences. This makes sense considering TATYANA describes her music as the colour blue, refusing to have any labels attached or to be trapped in a box. She says she “chooses the colour blue for the sense of peaceful melancholy that underpins even her most upbeat tracks.” “Shadow On The Wall” is no exception to this description: it’s both soothing and exhilarating in nature and has this dynamic that makes it so hypnotic to listen to. Watch her self-directed video below.