Prewn’s Izzy Hagerup follows up to 2023’s Through the Window with a noisy, nasty, powerful slice of feedback-addled rock, a primal wail that sits alongside howling classics like PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love and the Throwing Muses Limbo. Like Hersh, she makes disruptive use of bowed strings; the discordant cello in the title track goes about as far into rock anarchy as an orchestral instrument can do.
As the title implies, Hagerup has social ills, not personal ones, on her mind for this sophomore disc. In a ragged voice that vibrates with angst, she nails an exploitive industry in one quatrain: “Just give your life away/Turn on your lights baby/Give them a show/It won’t be long you say/But it’s a system and/All that you know.”