Izy Bandha is a 23 year old singer-songwriter, musician who crafts her art in Germany. Her track "Only Lovers" which she wrote, recorded and produced is darkly dreamy feeling at once raw but vast and punk elegant. Maybe it is the drum beat (that made me think of David Lovering) the divergent bent, the organic tones but surreal dreaminess and lyrics that wax darkly poetic speaking of demons, death, and maybe love as possession that feels like sonic mythology as old as vampires and made me think of an amalgam of The Pixies, Siouxsie And The Banshees and Jim Jarmusch.
The Jarmusch thought was a cheat and informed by Izy Bandha's revelations about the song:
The Jarmusch thought was a cheat and informed by Izy Bandha's revelations about the song:
"The lyrics started as just random thoughts which I wrote down as I looked at my lover watching the sea. it's melancholic and sweet, also pure. we watched Jim Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive' that night, which also really inspired me to write this song. I hope one day he will listen to it"
"Wooden furniture in bloody red
Room filled with smoky air"
Jim Jarmusch's 2013 off beat horror romance movie, 'Only Lovers Left Alive' where love is eternal while the world is in a tumultuous constant wave of change and turmoil. I hope Jarmusch will hear "Only Lovers". Maybe it will end up in one of his evocative askew movies as the song is just that as well. I love the late 70's punk tones and I especially love Izy's vocal aesthetic, the rushes in her melody and the lush sort of dreamy pop flourishes, the layered vox and the lead guitar lines that push the beat further.
Jim Jarmusch's 2013 off beat horror romance movie, 'Only Lovers Left Alive' where love is eternal while the world is in a tumultuous constant wave of change and turmoil. I hope Jarmusch will hear "Only Lovers". Maybe it will end up in one of his evocative askew movies as the song is just that as well. I love the late 70's punk tones and I especially love Izy's vocal aesthetic, the rushes in her melody and the lush sort of dreamy pop flourishes, the layered vox and the lead guitar lines that push the beat further.
"I’m trying to hold my demons together
Only Lovers"
When the beat falls away and the song becomes a fallen cascade of bittersweet hope, it feels like a deep painful breath before the beat drops back in. The end feels quietly cinematic like a black and white midnight movie. JJ would be proud of the askew things happening on this song.
When the beat falls away and the song becomes a fallen cascade of bittersweet hope, it feels like a deep painful breath before the beat drops back in. The end feels quietly cinematic like a black and white midnight movie. JJ would be proud of the askew things happening on this song.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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