Istanbul-based 24-year-old independent shoegaze/cloud rock songwriter and producer Nazire, the underground sweetheart of Turkey’s bustling alternative scene, rolls out the release of her third and last single, “Leech,” from her upcoming debut album, “Glitchfolk,” due early this winter via the forward-thinking Istanbul-based DIY label Ortacag, paired with a music video by Baran Efe Öztürk.
The song combines the emotional heaviness and noisy textures of bands such as julie, Momma, Slow Puld, Snail Mail, and DIIV with a colder, glitchier electronic production. Some of the riffs are made from chopped and manipulated guitar recordings, which give the track a punchy and unexpected feel.
Equally emotively penetrating and mesmerizing, “Leech” unravels through hypnotic midtempo programmed beats that carry Nazire‘s ethereal, fragile, and subtly anxious harmonies, switching between distorted aloofness and desperately sad feelings, to simultaneously contrast and integrate with the guitar’s scratching, strident and fuzz-swaddled winding riffs, conveying the seemingly divergent emotions of introspective melancholy and vibrant catharsis, to take responsibility for letting another ‘feed’ off her useful energy.
In the paired music video directed, shot and edited by Baran Efe Öztürk, Nazire performs “Leech” alongside a guitar player in front of symbolic locations. The sky is hazy, but the sun shines brightly through, casting dark shadows over the duo who roam from urban to natural settings. Strategic editing blends inverted light imagery with grainy disconnections and deep neon hues to seamlessly evoke the reflective understanding of the soundtrack.
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