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CMU Approved
Approved: Herizen
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 10 September 2020
Herizen Guardiola – or just Herizen – released her debut EP, ‘Come Over To My House’, in 2018. Since then, there’s been a steady drip feed of standalone singles. Now, however, she’s gearing up for the release of her next EP, ‘Demon’, with two tracks from it already out in the world.
‘Hellboy’ – which came out in May – and the newly released ‘Range Rover’ find her in defiant mood, leaving behind a relationship gone bad. As well as channelling this into her lyrics, her emotions are felt in the music too, resulting in a punchier, more direct sound than on her earlier work.
On ‘Hellboy’, distorted guitars on the verse embed her rage, before a moment of quietly seething calm in the chorus. ‘Range Rover’ puts the emphasis back on Herizen’s words with more sparse pop production (power drill samples notwithstanding).
“It’s my ‘fuck you’ song”, she says of ‘Range Rover’. “I was done feeling sad and sorry. I’m rising above the sadness in my Range Rover”.
‘Demon’ will be out in October. Watch the video for ‘Range Rover’ here:
