Prewn

If Izzy Hagerup’s new album, ‘System’, feels immediately uncompromising it’s because it was
never really designed for public consumption. Released under her Prewn moniker, Hagerup
describes the album as a “private journal made public”. Told across nine arresting new songs,
the album chronicles a deeply personal journey through the darkness of depression, but one
that’s always undercut by moments of humor, selfishness and self-reflection, a push-and-pull
that feels wholly distinctive.

Following on 2023’s ‘Through The Window’ LP - a collection of songs that Pitchfork hailed as a
“striking example of Hagerup’s ability to sit with ugliness” - ‘System’ finds Hagerup crawling
even deeper into the dense folds of the night. Written and recorded solely by Hagerup, mostly in
long stretches of bedroom sessions that found her working through the small hours until she
began to hear birdsong, the album reckons with a lot of the thoughts that tend to needle in at
that time of night; guilt, shame, and self-absorption, as well as the societal pressures that sit at
the root of such things. “This new album comes from a much more self-centered place; the stagnant aftermath of intensity and emotion,” Izzy says of her new work. “I think it came from a period of time that was more numb, hollow and confused. More disassociated from heartfelt pain, more entrenched in a frustrating and aimless discomfort.”