Indie Folk from Izi Phoenix

UK based folk act Izi Phoenix is formed by Izi and Xena Phoenix. Their musical partnership was first sparked when Izi was teaching Xena how to ride a motorcycle, quickly learning that she played music too. After meeting up a few days later and learning some covers, they took to the streets to busk and realised their voices complimented each other perfectly. It was an easy step for that relationship to develop and lead to their first recordings of original music.

Influenced by the likes of Mazzy Star, Mad Season, Johnny Cash and John Lee Hooker they craft a stripped back emotive indie folk sound. They’re a band that gives people the chance and space to feel. Moments of calm in a world that can be noisy and chaotic.

After releasing string of singles, as well as 2018’s album Cambridge Girls, they bring us their latest work with the new track “The Man I Met”. The new single offers their most intimate sound yet, a short and delicate lullaby of sombre calm.

With a gracefully minimal arrangement, soft and dusty vocals deliver poignant lyrics. The emotion behind “The Man I Met” is a reminder these feelings will come out if we don’t deal with them.

Commenting on the inspiration behind the writing, they reveal the song is about, “The darkness in the eyes of someone you don’t recognise when you look in the mirror like a tiger in a cage stalking you letting you know who’s in control.”

With Izi offering, “I was writing this song while I was working on a cattle station in Australia. Xena and I decided to keep in touch writing letters and occasionally we’d send something with it. It felt more meaningful, something you could hold. Post came on a Tuesday and Thursday and I’d drive 110kms to post a letter. It kept us close.”

Listen to The Man I Met below