03/10/2025
Prewn's new album, System, is out everywhere today! Written, performed, and recorded entirely by Izzy Hagerup, System is equal part stunning and unnerving, in the best of ways. There's a magic to the songs that moves in all directions, described by some as "itchy" and by others as "jagged,"and yet there's no denying the beauty in the fragile uncertainties of it all. A masterpiece of layered experimentation and anxious energy. But don't take our word for it...
"Izzy Hagerup makes the type of music as Prewn that almost feels like you shouldn’t be hearing it: confessional, raw, and entirely unguarded. The Los Angeles-based musician bares her soul once again on System, although this time she beckons you to join her in the practice." - Pitchfork
"An album that feels raw, immediate, and emotionally charged. It shifts from haunting moments to these really big explosive bursts of energy." - NPR Music's "All Songs Considered"
"We’ve come to associate “most personal album yet” with something a little more quiet or stripped back, but Izzy Hagerup’s second Prewn album System defies that stereotype entirely. Izzy refers to it as a “private journal made public,” but it’s just as noisy, jagged, and multi-layered as her remarkable 2023 debut album Through The Window." - Brooklyn Vegan
"System feels nearly psychedelic in its construction, with a sound (played entirely by Hagerup once again) that feels both cavernous and uncomfortably up-close. Hagerup is pleading, nearly desperate in opening track “Easy”, a PJ Harvey-esque collision of strings, dread, and little else, but not even this scorcher prepares us for just how “widescreen” System is capable of getting." - Rosy Overdrive
9 track album
