You can imagine our excitement to experience the first Kat Kikta release of 2026, titled Story. The track opens with a brooding meditative tone and droplet sounds, expanding with spiritual toms as Kat shares a delicate timbre with a narrative-based concept.
Kat recounts, “I have a story for you, that I need to tell, once upon a time, there was a lonely man, his heart cried and cried, he had it all but love, he kneeled down to pray one night, ‘God show me the way…'” We are intrigued and appreciate the journey that we are being taken on thus far.
Story evolves into a tale that “serves as a shamanic rite of shedding the old to make way for the new, fostering hope for the future. It celebrates the seasonal renewal of nature alongside the rekindling of human feelings, love and identity, honouring the power to transform.”
Fans of Björk will be able to connect with Story, but the high spiritual quotient and cosmic dimensionality that manifests is truly Kat Kikta‘s own design. The strings arrangement is sublime, adding emotional depth and orchestral grandeur to the tale.
Kat confesses, “It’s an amazing thing when a song is specific and finds you right when you need to hear it, like God is a DJ, and is watching and mixing a soundtrack for your life. Story came to me in a dream, I aimed to translate the message I received without interfering with it, so I wanted to make a song that wasn’t lined up with a popular sound or a trending feel, a song that would come out of nowhere for someone and really connect like that, in a divine way.”
We are in awe of the shamanic energy that transmutes with the delicate and intricate track, and as Kat sings, “now it’s time for love…” this resonates on a collective level, as love is what we need now more than ever. Also from a cinematic standpoint, there is no doubt that Story would fit into the new Interview with a Vampire series.
We have added Story to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our TRIPPY playlist, whilst we continue to stream the wider discography of Kat Kikta, including I Let You Go, and Was It Almost Love?, and await the music video and Transglobal Underground remix.