Today, Los Angeles-based electro-pop artist BUZZ announces her otherworldly, self-produced debut EP On Matters Of Searching. Alongside the announcement, BUZZ shares the first taste of the forthcoming project with single "Universe" out everywhere now. The electronic inspired, quantum thoroughfare finds the songwriter hypothesizing the definition of all life’s common threads. Its release is accompanied by a meditative visualizer which finds BUZZ enveloped in an underwater enclosure and provokes the feeling of being forcibly contained; a symbol of how she feels in her skin, bound to earth by gravity.
To celebrate the EP release, BUZZ will perform the project in its entirety live in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, with exact location to be announced, on May 18. Presented by Makeoutmusic, the show will feature a real-time modular synth set along with an exclusive one of one merch line only available at the show, made in collaboration with Plastic Buckettt. Tickets are available now here.
BUZZ is an LA-based singer, songwriter and producer who grew up playing classical violin, learned piano by ear at age five and began songwriting at age seven. Before plunging into her own solo music in 2021, BUZZ has written platinum selling hits for Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue, Bebe Rexha and supported Tove Lo on tour last year. Office Magazine praised her second-ever release "Misfit," writing, "Hypnotizing beats makes the listener cling to every lyric," calling the song "explosive" and adding that for BUZZ, "defying convention is second nature." With over 1.3M Spotify streams on her fan favorite track "Liberation," and a fast-growing, devoted following, BUZZ is ready to re-introduce herself as she begins to build a complex, transcendental sonic world that encapsulates the multi-dimensional artist like never before.
Crafted mostly during a trip to the mountains outside of Los Angeles, the self-produced forthcoming EP On Matters Of Searching is an eight track examination of humanity, nature, science and healing filled with confessional lyrics and inventive production. Granular synth beds and tasteful choirs lace many of the songs along with sounds of satellites falling out of earshot and percussion from field recordings of branches being stepped on or water dripping off stalactites from an ancient undiscovered cave. BUZZ says the EP, "is a love letter to a life beyond humanity, and beyond time. It’s a wormhole I’ve dreamed of entering and gladly losing myself in.”
Inspired equally by nature and science, the subject matter often dives into the philosophical while being painfully self-aware. There’s an aura of healing that quickly emerges when listening to the songstress methodically examine the material world through music while having grounded confessions like “How could I forget reality starts in my head” and “I’m a broken heart racing to my ruin.” The title, On Matter Of Searching is inspired by ancient Greek scientist, Democritus, known for his accurate atomic theory of the universe developed in 300 BCE.
The creation of the EP inspired BUZZ to discover more parts of herself and allowed her to escape reality, even just for a limited time, and she hopes it encourages listeners to do the same. “Every millisecond from the lyrics, to the production, is a fiber of me that leaked out and helped me feel a little more whole." BUZZ continues, "I’m hoping it gives people a little bit of what it’s given me–an escape from present reality, a curiosity of what’s beyond our comprehension, a rebellion from social constructs, and ultimately, a connection to the divine parts of us.”
Out today, BUZZ opens up a new realm with her latest single “Universe.” The song is an eagerly awaited drop from fans who caught the celestial soundbite in January 2023 during a live performance on her social media channels. The track is written and produced by BUZZ herself and even features a field recording of icicles melting from the isolated mountainside cabin it was created in. Against a backdrop of textural percussion and blooming, ambient synths, she sings of “a grain of sand so small until you zoom in” and claims “we met long ago just in different forms,” staying true to her philosophical core and masterfully merging it with her artistic identity.
Watch: "Universe" (Official Visualizer)
Diving into how the track came about, BUZZ explains, “I think about these big concepts a lot, somehow they put me at ease. I love seeing the synchronicities in nature from the way humans are formed to the way stars are formed, the way all things can be zoomed in on to infinitely discover more things and vice versa zooming out." Rather than being afraid of how vast the universe really is, she embraces it, and seeks to learn more. BUZZ continues, "I’m happily burdened by an emotional reaction to the never-ending space that we're suspended in atop this little magical rock swirling through the galaxy. 'Universe' is about all life, and its limitlessness.”
"Universe," a musical exploration of humanity and the expansiveness of outer space, is out everywhere now. The debut, self-produced EP by BUZZ, On Matters Of Searching, is due out May 19. Celebrate the EP at the official EP release show with BUZZ in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles on May 18 and grab exclusive merch in collaboration with Plastic Buckett. Tickets on sale now here. Connect with BUZZ on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook for more from the rising artist. | 
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