Izzy Cihak

By Izzy Cihak “I grew up on the beach diet,” is not exactly what you’d usually expect (or like) to hear from an indie heroine who just released what you consider to be the year’s cleverest album thus far. “It’s always very bright and the sun is Read More

By Izzy Cihak “We’ll all be gardening on rooftops and we’ll have to know jujitsu to defend our lives,” she tells me within our first minute of conversation. This was preceded by the prophetic, “Five years from now the internet as we know it will not Read More

By Izzy Cihak It’s a rainy Tuesday afternoon and I’m sitting on my couch, in H&M yoga pants, talking to my #1 celeb. crush over the phone. “I’m just at my flat, hanging out with my bunny rabbit” she tells me. This is not how I would’ve Read More

By Izzy Cihak Photo Courtesy Daffodil Publicity Martin Atkins has said that a band’s performance under the worst conditions should carry far more weight than that under the best conditions. I would like to think that the same rings true for music journalism. Conducting an Read More

By Izzy Cihak Defining “Indie Pop,” or any other genre that arose from arbitrary music-lingo-qualifiers, is no easy task and not something I deem myself capable of doing. I’m not sure how much the artists on my list have in common with each other. I doubt they Read More

By Izzy Cihak Hello, hello. It’s Izzy Cihak… likely the most eccentric, cynical, and pretentious member of the Origivation family. Welcome to my column, “108 lbs and Condescending.” The title is derived from my mentor, Jack Murnighan, who once used the Read More