Detroit based Izzy Savides is just 18 but has already achieved the rare reputation of being a musical alchemist who blends their singing, production wizardry, and multi-instrumental mastery to transmute musical elements into gold. Her boundless creativity, versatile talents for instruments, and soul-baring songwriting is on display on the newly released single, “Prison in the Suburbs.” Izzy opens with a melody that stems from Bossa Nova hit “Girl from Ipanema,” a cultural touchstone that comes from the nightlife of 50’s Rio De Janeiro, but utterly transforms the ubiquitous piece into a sonic tour de force that bends, layers, and cracks open with cathartic wonder. Izzy’s elastic bass grooves with a stilted samba rhythm as her shape-shifting fretwork dazzles, culminating in a incendiary guitar solo that leads into a stunning climatic refrain. Fans of Deefhoof, At the Drive-In, and Billie Eilish could find Savides’ music to be a new obsession. Here is what Izzy says on the track:
“The song is about how I was very ignored and neglected as a child. I would play with toys and try to tune out the loud music and skunk smells coming from the basement. I was verbally abused a lot (hence ‘instead of hands he threw words’) and the second verse is about how I’m told that my rough childhood made me strong, but I feel like it just made me an asshole.”
Listen to Izzy Savides new single, “Prison in the Suburbs” on Spotify and Apple Music. Find more from Izzy on their Bandcamp, Youtube, TikTok and Linktree.