Today, Los Angeles-based electro-pop artist BUZZ shares her otherworldly debut self-produced EP On Matters Of Searching out everywhere now. Alongside the complete collection, BUZZ shares the romantic, sweeping track "Different Sun" out now with an accompanying dreamy, futuristic visualizer. The philosophical EP imagines life beyond traditional human society, unbound to time and space, in search of something greater.
Crafted mostly during a trip to the mountains outside of Los Angeles, the self-produced debut EP On Matters Of Searching out today 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.”
Inviting listeners inside her sonic moodboard, BUZZ explains, "It's ever-evolving with each listen. It's constantly putting me in different scenes in my head - scenes that all have a tone of wonder and awe for nature, its unknowns, and the mystery of consciousness." BUZZ expands on the boundless body of work, "It's a soundtrack built outside of the gender binary, and outside the dimension of this reality, into a more innate essence of life apart from society."
With the full EP comes the latest hypnotic track "Different Sun". The sweeping track is a layered, romantic tale that imagines a love in another, post-apocalyptic realm. Over a pounding, atmospheric beat, BUZZ's vocals float in with, "We could start again in another life / with a different sun / in a different light"." To BUZZ, it "feels like watching a sea of sand swell and undulate in space." The artist calls it, "A love song from an escape pod" as she built the song out of a fantasy world where she pictures two people leaving a desolate Earth to restructure society from the ground up elsewhere. In the track's accompanying visualizer, BUZZ is seen in a dream-like vision imagining a future planet.
Watch "Different Sun" (Official Visualizer)
The release of the project follows the previously shared haunting, avant-pop track and video "Statues," and the musical exploration of outer space "Universe". The former, "Statues," sees the songstress laments a love bound to this dimension, making dulcimer, pizzicato strings, clavichord, rain sticks, and kalimba feel like they have always belonged in an electronic setting as the track blurs ancient and futuristic periods while carrying a torch for ascension.
An ancient, inter-galactic love letter, "Statues" was written and produced by BUZZ and features water drops from caves and branches being stepped on to further emphasize its earth-bound fate. The explosive reaction across social media gained the song a last minute seat on BUZZ’s forthcoming EP. Inspired by the art of the Hellenistic period, the lyrics are a love letter written by Aphrodite to a secret earthly muse, as if a time traveler were hiding relics for someone they love and lamenting their ties to time.
While creating "Statues," BUZZ attempted to put herself in the shoes of someone desperately wanting to keep their loved ones' memory alive, while understanding no physical object lasts forever. "I kept imagining what I would do for someone I adored to preserve their memory across the earth - painting pictures, sculpting busts, weaving tapestries, and the ultimate heartbreak of knowing no physical thing I make on this earth will last forever which is shown in the line “'I wish we could be statues, oh but they’ll go too.'”
Delving into how the unique, field recorded sounds came to be on the track, as opposed to a traditional drum set, BUZZ says, "Sonically, I wanted the song to feel as if it lived in a cave, so the highs are rolled off on a lot of the percussion and there’s everything from rain sticks to wind chimes to kalimba and xylophone giving a more melodic structure to the percussion sections."
"Universe" allows the songstress to hypothesize the definition of all life’s common threads. On 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.” Notion called it "industrial electronica" and "carefully crafted" when including it on their coveted Undiscovered list.
Its release was accompanied by a meditative video 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.
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 builds a complex, transcendental sonic world that encapsulates the multi-dimensional artist like never before.
The debut mystical self-produced EP by BUZZ, On Matters Of Searching, is out everywhere now. The project further expands upon BUZZ's ethereal world and allows the artist to find higher meaning as she embarks on a celestial spiritual voyage. Connect with BUZZ on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook for more from the rising artist.
Listen | Watch "Statues" (Official Music Video) Listen | Watch: "Universe" (Official Music Video) | 
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