There’s a balance between storytelling and poetry when it comes to writing lyrics to a song. It’s not the same thing, necessarily. An overly-poetic verse can feel gross or childish. Too many words of prose can start to feel like someone’s treating their Protools like a therapist.
Kirsten Izer walks the edge of that blade with an expertise that makes it seem like she doesn’t even have to try.
In her recent single “One Year,” she sings, “We don’t actually own anything but we want to,” as if it were a last plea. Dredging up the silt of her soul in a voice so heavy with sentiment, it’s buoyant and just strange enough to make you fall instantly for it – even if out of sheer curiosity.
That voice carries you through an equally strange and meandering structure that abides by no 3.30 radio rules. Her songwriting is matter-of-fact in a way that points out the mundane in the most heartfelt golden hour light. Because it’s those mundane, slow, movements and moments that can carry the most.
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