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Today, Los Angeles-based electro-pop artist BUZZ shares haunting, avant-pop track and video "Statues" out everywhere now, that finds the songstress lamenting a love bound to this dimension. It's the latest taste of the forthcoming otherworldly, self-produced debut EP On Matters Of Searching. "Statues" makes 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.
To celebrate the EP release next month, 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.
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.
Inviting listeners inside BUZZ's sonic moodboard, BUZZ explains, "My mind loves to live in a fantasy world consisting of an ancient, highly evolved civilization that communicates with other beings from different worlds, openly trading and traveling between multiple galaxies, but still looks like the ancient world with ornate open air palaces and lavish royal baths…can you tell I watched 'Three Thousand Years Of Longing?'"
While crafting the song, 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."
The track's accompanying video was directed by Sasha Paskal, who also directed BUZZ's previously released video for her track, "Nothing Is Real." It was shot at the historic California Trona Pinnacles, the site of scenes from Battlestar Galactica, StarTrek, and Planet Of The Apes. BUZZ says on the idea behind the video, "I wanted to look and feel a bit stranded, since emotionally the song puts me in this place where I have dominion over the world for a few seconds."
Watch "Statues" (Official Music Video)
Today's release follows the previously shared musical exploration of outer space "Universe," written and produced by BUZZ herself. 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. 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.
On how the song 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.”
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.”
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.
With "Statues," BUZZ aims to preserve love beyond this realm, unbound to any particular time and space. The track and video, out everywhere now, is the latest expansion of her new supernatural, musical world. 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.
Listen: "Universe" | Watch: "Universe" (Official Music Video)
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