Fresh off the back of a sold-out national tour supporting Paris Paloma, Australian artist, producer and multi-instrumentalist EMEREE unveils her soulful new single ‘Prominence’. The song arrives just ahead of her debut London show — a full-circle moment for a song written and produced in the city last year with Simon Byrt.

EMEREE channels the emotional undercurrent of constant movement and ambition. The song explores the limbo of building a creative career while feeling personally unanchored — from crying on hostel floors, hand-making merch just before walking on stage, and performing choreographed routines with costume changes to sticky rooms with 20 people in them.

Sonically, ‘Prominence’ leans into warm, introspective UK soul-pop. Built around spacious drums, restrained bass, and layered harmony stacks, the production favours feel over flourish — leaving room for tension to sit in the gaps. EMEREE’s controlled vocal delivery, effortless whistle register and subtle R&B phrasing place her in conversation with artists like Olivia Dean and Cleo Sol, while maintaining a distinctly self-produced intimacy.

EMEREE leans into retro soul with ‘Prominence’, wrapping jazz-tinged dry drum grooves and lush, hall-soaked piano chords into a sound that feels both vintage and finely polished. Drawing from the R&B-soaked soul revival of the 2000s, she filters it through her own modern lens, balancing warmth with a crisp production sheen. It’s a track rich in texture, but it’s EMEREE’s effortless vocal — those soaring whistle notes included — that act as the final dusting of sugar, elevating ‘Prominence’ into something irresistibly smooth and quietly striking.

EMEREE explains that after a turbulent few years of loss and grief, she really confronted her coping mechanisms of diving into work and avoiding her problems. “I wrote Prominence the day I was getting on a train to Paris. I realised I’d been using movement as a coping mechanism,” EMEREE says.

“If I was travelling, writing, building something — I didn’t have to sit still long enough to feel what I’d been avoiding. Prominence came out in one stream of consciousness because, for the first time, I wasn’t trying to outrun anything. I was just letting it surface.”

‘Prominence’ arrives at a pivotal moment: an artist stepping into international momentum while acknowledging the emotional cost that often accompanies it. As EMEREE prepares for her debut London show, the single stands as both arrival and reckoning — signalling an artist whose international ascent is matched by emotional clarity.

‘Prominence’ is out now on all streaming platforms.