If You Don't Know, Now Ya Know : IRIS

Hey meatloaf, this is an exciting feature this week. Let me introduce you to IRIS my newest mp3 lover.

A couple of months ago I came across IRIS's first single "I'll Wait For You" off her forthcoming debut solo EP. Straight away I was caught by the crawling baseline in the intro, because I'm a sucker for a baseline and this one had me on the groove train. From there the song layers and builds and gets the vocal cut treatment. It's one of those unpredictable songs that you don't exactly know where it's going to go. For some reason, I can't pick what is that is provoking this, but she kind of reminds me of Imogen Heap, it could be the vocal. idk.

From hearing "I'll Wait For You" I went onto her full Soundcloud page and saw that this was her only uploaded track so I was a bit bummed out I couldn't go down an IRIS wormhole like I do with most of the artists I find, but at the same time I was super excited to be able to follow her from the very beginning and to hear her sound develop as it happens.

Which brings me to her brand new (less than 24 hour old) new single, "Follow Me".  In my opinion it's even better than "I'll Wait For You," which I think is a good thing ya know, you don't wanna do the opposite, that'd be a bit of an anti-climax wouldn't it. "Follow Me" starts with a gust of wind sample which then rolls into a slow burning, synth-pop vocal, epic, movie soundtrack sounding intro that then escalates with the help of some fancy-finger guitar and some friends in the brass family making themselves known. If I had to sum it up in one word i'd just say "big" because, it's so big, I think it's the brass giving me subconscious elephant vibes or something.

I don't know much about her personally, other than the fact that she is a Spanish-Canadian BABE who is heavily inspired by Steven Tyler, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, which is a recipe for some prettyyyy cool tunes.


Definitely keep your eye on her for 2015. yeeyuuhh

Kritty out xx.