"I never asked for too much / Just asked for your love / I never asked for too much / Too much..."
The emotional triangle choke hold of "The Perfect Hire / the liar", by New Jersey bred / Los Angeles based alt pop singer-songwriter / producer Kirsten Izer, is stunning in it's gritty pull and dense storytelling. Simmering around powerful indie rock / busker punk acoustic guitar strums, sonically textured and rich, Izer's bloodletting gets more intrinsically intense as the song narrative expands. I have been a fan of Izer's ability to tap into her own feelings and purge them since I first featured her music in AP about nine years. It is a special ability to have and whether her stories are fictional constructs based on factual parts of here life or directly diaristic doesn't matter to me. What matters is the emotional impression her songs leave and they leave a commanding presence, echo. Her vocal countenance, purely potent with sharpened artistic teeth stands out too. I mean if you listen intently to "The Perfect Hire / the liar", you feel the story in stark ways, the anger you feel might take rent in your stomach as a dull ache or as moral rage in your own clenched fist.
The older you get, manipulators, gaslighter, passion killers, and abusers are easily to see with clear eyes whether in business or deeply intentional emotional love relationships. AND when you get older you can look back at your life and see all the mistakes you made hanging with the wrong people. I thought about this as I navigated the pain and survivorship that Izer offers up here. Great, great song. One that after repeated listens becomes more intense leaving chills against my skin. Like other female voices over the years whether it be Carly Simon or Alanis Morissette or PJ Harvey or Lana Del Rey or Chappell Roan, Kirsten Izer taps into social rage and makes it sound beautiful from darkness to light. For me, this is Kirsten Izer's most powerful song to date. Her songwriting and vocal performance, in tandem, is stunning. When her voice lifts up at around 1:19 ("How convenient that you moved on / Just as she stayed") it kills me every time.
Izer offers:
“Anyone can relate to the feeling of not being good enough and changing themselves in hopes of gaining approval,” Izer shares. “It can also be seen as commentary on women in society — the need we feel to have blonder hair, straighter teeth, to ‘man up’ for our fathers, to never fight with others, to always smile and be polite even when people ask you stupid questions. We’ll tear ourselves apart in order to achieve that perfection.”
LINER NOTES:
[The Perfect Hire / the liar is a indie alt-pop track that tells the story of a debilitating relationship that started in the workplace and was built on an unfair balance of power. Co-produced with ARIA Award winning producer Randall Belculfine (Tones And I, Tanerélle), The Perfect Hire / the liar started in Izer's childhood bedroom, where she was able to let her walls down and create her most vulnerable work to date. Izer confesses her feelings of inadequacy both personally and professionally as the lines blur in her relationship.]
"The Perfect Hire / the liar" is from Kirsten Izer's latest EP "The Perfect Hire" -
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Alt-pop singer/songwriter/producer from New Jersey currently based in Los Angeles. “[Kirsten Izer] has, very powerfully, and thrillingly, her own sound.” -SPIN Magazine “Her style is wild and free while adding a distinctive note of extravaganza to a familiar pop formula.” -Nothing But Hope And Passion “The strength of her writing, exquisite self-awareness and ability to emote vulnerability is really special.” -American Pancake
Kirsten Izer, New Jersey bred, Los Angeles based, singer songwriter, producer, creator, writer, musician, NEW EP "The Perfect Hire", single "The Perfect Hire / the liar" (Official Visualizer), indie rock, folk indie,
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