by Mitch Mosk
September 19, 2019
“We don’t actually own anything, but we want to,” sings a plaintive Kirsten Izer in her intimate new single. The unveiled confession of an aching heart, “One Year” is a stripped-down, late night intermingling of introspection, sadness, and love’s loss that says all it needs to say without glitz and glamour: If poetry can dazzle, then this song has a brilliant hue.
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “One Year,” Kirsten Izer’s first single of 2019 (independently out Friday, September 20, 2019). The indie singer/songwriter project of New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based 23-year-old Kirsten Spruch, Kirsten Izer has a way of singing directly to our deepest feelings. Her first release in three years finds her mixing dark and light elements in a stark exploration of her own doubts and uncertainties surrounding intimacy, the idea of being alone, the unknowable future, and a recent relationship’s collapse!
“Coincidentally, I wrote this song just about a year ago. I was in an unhealthy relationship that very much became ‘on-again, off-again’ for the entire last year, and while I fought for it to continue that whole time, I knew in my heart it was over. And I was okay with it,” Kirsten Izer tells Atwood Magazine. The first verse’s line, “It’s our one year anni, but you don’t love me,” stings more and more as the weight of Izer’s reality sets in.