Izzy Voxx - Ghosts and Shooting Star Syndrome
IZZY VOXX – ‘GHOSTS AND SHOOTING STAR SYNDROME’
Ghosts and Shooting Star Syndrome is the title of the new EP from Izzy Voxx. Originally from Mullumbimby, Australia, Voxx is now based in Sydney.
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According to Voxx, “The album was written and recorded in my bedroom. The band is me, I write most of the music myself. For three of the songs on this album I collaborated with my friend Lucca Mason, also from Mullumbimby Australia, who was living in Tokyo at the time of the album’s making, so we communicated through Instagram messaging about the music.”
Citing David Bowie as her primary influence, along with Cher, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, and Amyl and the Sniffers, Voxx, who is now 23-years-old, fell into music inadvertently when she was 20-years-old. Painfully shy and lacking confidence, her aunt purchased music lessons for Voxx as a Christmas gift. Voxx delighted in the lessons, admitting that at one lesson she actually cried “because I’d never heard my voice like that before.”
Since then, she’s fused her love for poetry and stories with her newfound obsession for music – writing songs. Not having completely conquered her shyness, Voxx has yet to perform live, but is presently “working on putting on my first show which will hopefully be sometime very soon.”
Ghosts and Shooting Star Syndrome features six-tracks, opening with “Heaven and Nothing,” which rides a gleaming dream-pop melody on a measured bass-driven rhythm. Spoken-words coalesce with misty, melodic vocals to deliver surreal sonic tones and mystical lyrics.
“Mother, Won’t You Set Me Free” opens on shining soft streams of color, followed by Voxx’s rap-like tonal flow, velvety with vibrant resonance.
“Nothing in heaven / loses what it takes / nothing is set in stone / or it just breaks / are you lost? / or do you just not care / about what you left / a throne and who would dare.”
“I Will Take You Where I’ve Been” rides sparkling colors full of Eastern devout tones atop a trembling melody. Voxx’s voice, sylph-like and flavored with intoxicating timbres, infuses the tune with nuances of edginess. “If You Haunt Me” travels on a fat, rolling rhythm buoying whistling synth tones, as Voxx’s dreamy, creamy voice lingers on wistful savors.
“Angelic Intermission,” an instrumental number, ripples and undulates on a tick-tock rhythm. “All Over You” features chant-like tones that take on a delicious droning melodicism, both mesmerizing and elusively alluring.
“Mother, Won’t You Set Me Free” opens on shining soft streams of color, followed by Voxx’s rap-like tonal flow, velvety with vibrant resonance. There’s a hint of dance dynamics to the harmonics, which, combined with the rapping vocals imbues the tune with a tantalizing intimacy.
Ghosts and Shooting Star Syndrome is superbly innovative, totally sui generis, and sublimely arranged. The icing on the cake is the luscious voice of Izzy Voxx.
