Bursting through the door guns ablazing this Halloween, London-based band Ignoring Izzy have released their debut single ‘What I Need’.
Dripping with a freakish and distorted sensuality, the track is a whirlwind from start to finish, evoking the frantic nature of bands like the Dismemberment Plan and the tongue-in-cheek silliness of Oingo Boingo. The song jostles the listener back and forth, surrounding them in sultry vocals, liquid synth and persistent percussion, a tumble dryer cycle whirring around and around; a hypnotising journey from start to end....
Gypsy-jazz brass and polyrhythmic bass provide a rich canvas for Ignoring Izzy to paint with colourful PJ Harvey-style vocals, melodically pleasing staccato saxophone, and jazz-rock guitar. Vivaciously energetic, their debut single 'What I Need' is a fantastic culmination of musical styles.
Squelchy synths and tight drums bring 80s Herbie Hancock into post-Brexit punk. Yet somehow, half way through the song, a big-band style drum solo adds yet another surprising twist to the genre...
On the 17th of April at 22:14 the floor of The Victoria in Dalston was laden with a bountiful harvest. Daikon, leek and spring onion decorated the cement ground as a crowd lingered, almost unable to shake the spell cast on them just moments prior. The perpetrators of this healthy mass hysteria were London’s Ignoring Izzy, holding a celebration of the release of their second single, 'Motorway Musk'.
Since the release of their first single, “What I Need” on Halloween of 2025, Ignoring Izzy have enraptured the underground, rapidly luring in new fans with their deliciously disruptive siren songs. Made up of lead singer Isadora Pulman, vocalist and synth player Finn Kverndal, guitarist Alex Wrey, bassist Joseph Smith, saxophonist Freddie Graham and Kiry Valambhia on drums, the band are undoubtedly one of the most exciting new live acts. Music Is To Blame were present at the 'Motorway Musk' launch party to pick the band’s brains on their creative process, understand their affinity with the open road, and, most importantly, take some spring onions home for dinner.
The Windmill scene has a Black Midi shaped gap in it that many artists have thrived in. Whilst we’re seeing Geordie Greep and My New Band Believe try to establish the next chapter of that scene as its forerunners reinvited, given new life; You’re getting bands like Man/Woman/Chainsaw and Truthpaste operate in kind of the art rock sphere, Uncle Junior in the noise, whilst Ignoring Izzy kind of exist as this new kind of movement at the epicentre of it all in a fusion of both: their single Motorway Musk is easy to dance to and plunges you into a steady, more refined MPTL Microplastics-type beat, where you’re watching them move in motion to the jazz beats. “Push me push me, further from home”, the song creates an instant mood piece of what it’s aiming for from the word go with a confidence that most singles this early in a band’s career fail to capture; “drive by quick man / son of a fool…” the chanting of Motorway Musk that builds and builds as the rest of the band join in and it almost feels alluring and hypnotising all in its own right, as it builds together with the sense of vibe of choreographed whimsy. It creates a kooky, chaotic, charming atmosphere that establish them as a polished outfit right from the start.
Fuel Café Bar in Withington hosts the fifth stop of six-piece band Ignoring Izzy’s ‘Motorway Musk’ tour, following the release of their debut single. The room buzzes with the promise of chaos, and possibly a few flying vegetables.
By the time the headliners, Ignoring Izzy, take the stage, the energy’s already high – yet they push it further. They open with an ethereal choral ensemble before surprising the crowd, ripping into a frenetic guitar riff that strays off into jazz, all within a few minutes.
Ignoring Izzy lean strongly into the unconventional: brandishing a traditional guembri instrument and saxophone, you’re never quite sure what to expect. From songs about supermarket-aisle abandonment, to a steady barrage of flying leeks, Ignoring Izzy make themselves pretty impossible to ignore.