Brennan Wedl’s “High Priestess” Adds Tarot Logic to a Late-Night Drive

Brennan Wedl has spent the lead-up to her self-titled debut building a small catalog of sharp, atmospheric songwriting. “Pretty Little Fantasy,” “Let’s Be Models,” and “Two Dollar Pistol” each pulled from a different corner of that instinct. “High Priestess,” out today, extends the run with a tarot-inspired ballad that stays grounded in a very specific Nashville scene: an empty car, late at night, circling familiar streets without a destination.

Wedl describes the track as “a POV from behind the wheel of an aimless after-hours drive around town.” The premise is deliberately ordinary. The narrator is not running from something dramatic—just negotiating with the past at low speed. From a tarot perspective, Wedl explains, the High Priestess card represents an intuition the narrator keeps trying to override with human agenda. The references to the 2 of Swords and the Magician reinforce the central tension: bargaining with what you already know, obscuring a reality you cannot accept.

The song does not resolve that tension neatly. Instead, it sits with the discomfort of returning to your old street and realizing the road has not changed, but you have. That restraint is what makes the single work. Wedl is not writing around the feeling; she is writing from inside it.

Brennan Wedl arrives August 21 via ANTI-.