by calexanderpoetry | April 18, 2025

In “Electric Blue,” Kirsten Izer explores heartache through vivid locations, blending bossa nova and rock to convey emotional complexity and vulnerability, creating relatable memories of love lost.

Maps have coordinates, memories have locations. In “Electric Blue,” Kirsten Izer charts the topography of heartache through physical spaces—where New York streets become pathways back to lost connection and Los Angeles neighborhoods (“this side of Hillhurst”) mark territory of continued longing.

by Alfitufe | April 17, 2025

LA-based talent, Kirsten Izer, is back on our pages with a powerful new single that deserves your attention!

‘Electric Blue’ is a beautifully emotional and sincere song that seamlessly applies bossa nova rhythms over an alternative pop production, resulting in a sound that is unlike anything we’ve heard. The track was co-produced along with Randall Belculfine and looks at the legacy that love leaves within us. Izer explains:

“It was one of those songs where I didn’t even really understand what it was about until it was complete. Each lyric felt very soft, like a natural fit, and conveyed kind of a duelling positive and negative feeling I’ve had simultaneously for one person, which was turning out to be a common theme in a lot of my songs.”

by Robb Donker Curtius | Sunday, March 23, 2025

The alt pop wandering third eye of "You" by, indie singer-songwriter Kirsten Izer, feels mysterious, soars to ethereal places and asks questions. I love the sort of trip hop electronica happening in this song, I am a champion of understated, perfectly placed sounds that has ambient atmospheres that wrap around you. "You" is that. Don't get me wrong, it is highly produced, wonderfully produced but doesn't sound like it is, the ebb and flow, the emotional musical arc is so engaging. Of course, a huge part of this pull and push is the song itself and Kirsten Izer's vocal countenance that is bathed in questions, relationship questions (in my mind) that might have to do with the old existential tugs of where do I begin and where do your start or vice a versa and is 'we' an entirely different spiritual animal, entity??

by Thewildiscalling | March 7th, 2025

Kirsten Izer might want to know more about You.  Maybe.  It’s a cautionary allure.  Izer knows to be careful what you wish for.  There’s a seductive trait masking her obsessed conflict.  That detail comes to a fever pitch in the songs convincing trademark chorus.  It’s in this moment that the emotion takes over.  Is this real life, or is this fantasy?

A catchy upbeat indie psych pop rock, You should instantly connect with fans of Tame Impala or Lucius.  It’s freaky catchy while staying true to its narrative.  It’s a great find. 

We’re very excited to be sharing with you a new indie artist emerging from LA, going by the name of Kirsten Izer.

Originally from New Jersey, this singer, songwriter, and producer creates songs that seamlessly blend indie with experimental pop. The result is a sound that is really quite unique, as is the case with her new single, ‘You’.

The track is inspired by the powerful connections that we sometimes have with special people and was co-produced alongside the acclaimed Randy Belculfine (noted for his work with Tones and I, Tanerélle, and more). On the lyrics, Izer says:

“It’s about that special person that you have such a strong connection with. No amount of distance or silence can change how much you care. You love them and you wonder how they’re doing, but they don’t need to call or explain—their existence is enough.”

Former music publicist decides to make music instead. Good move!

Written by Bob Guccione Jr. | May 25, 2023 - 9:00 am

Kirsten Izer, who was “always making music, since I was 11 years old,” started her career at 18 as a publicist for indie artists. After a while she decided to become a journalist, and interviewed “hundreds of artists.” Somewhere along the line she decided to accept her long-destined fate and become one of those artists she and everyone else around her were, in one way or another, writing about.

She currently lives in LA and, smartly, because music is a tough, cold business, still has a day job, marketing audio brands. She grew up on the east coast, in New York and New Jersey.

Britnee Meiser on September 23, 2019

Brooklyn-based Kirsten Izer’s debut single of 2019, “One Year,” is a raw and evocative exploration of toxic love and lingering loss. The minimal arrangement consists only of a hazy electric guitar and Izer’s cool, smoky vocals, but its intimacy is what makes it powerful.

by Mitch Mosk

September 19, 2019

“We don’t actually own anything, but we want to,” sings a plaintive Kirsten Izer in her intimate new single. The unveiled confession of an aching heart, “One Year” is a stripped-down, late night intermingling of introspection, sadness, and love’s loss that says all it needs to say without glitz and glamour: If poetry can dazzle, then this song has a brilliant hue.