St. Panther has released “The Deal,” a soulful R&B single filled with old-school lustre, meticulous bass lines, and hypnotic jazzy keys dialed in by St. Panther themselves that confesses love and admiration with an abundance of growing pain. The instant classic marks the moment in the upcoming ‘Strange World’ EP where St. Panther stops dedicating themselves to the fast-moving world to reassess how that might have hurt something more tender and closer to home, accompanied by a mesmerizing and meditative live performance video featuring longtime collaborators including the EP’s co-producer McClenney. St. Panther explains they tend to put music where prolonged silences live, wishing someone had known them better and wanted to write a song like Dido’s “White Flag” that said their love was true. The defiant genre-transforming EP ‘Strange World’ is out now via drink sum wtr, collecting soulful modern pop songs that narrate and confront the wider climate of uncertainty and oblivion, marking St. Panther’s first release with the art-forward label and their first compilation of music since their 2020 breakout debut EP ‘These Days.’