Irene Diaz Returns with "Another Observer" and Announces 'Lovers & Friends' Album
IRENE DIAZ
—LOS ANGELES-BASED ALTERNATIVE POP ARTIST—
RELEASES LONG-AWAITED NEW SINGLE
“ANOTHER OBSERVER”
MARKS THE LEAD SINGLE FROM FORTHCOMING FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
‘LOVERS & FRIENDS’
DUE OUT IN 2020
LOS ANGELES (December 10, 2019) — After an extended process of writing, self-reflection, re-writing, recording and polishing, the sensational Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, Irene Diaz, returns with her new single, the pulsating “Another Observer” (Cosmica Records). The track marks the lead single from her forthcoming full-length Lovers & Friends album expected in 2020. Last week, the song exclusively debuted with Buzzbands.LA and found Kevin Bronson raving it’s “…a fully realized modern pop confessional…It’s a bold initiation to her new aesthetic.”
Prior to Diaz linking up with Carla Morrison—who Executive Produced the upcoming Lovers & Friends album—and producers Alejandro and Demian Jimenez who enhanced the songs with electronic soundscapes and moody textures that envelope and elevate her lyrics, she released her 2013 EP I Love You Madly. That debut release found praise from NPR’s Felix Contreras raving that “…her sheer power belies her compact stature, and her musical impact is simply immense.” Isabela Raygoza of Remezcla penned: “I’ve been obsessed with singer/pianist Irene Diaz ever since I heard a note slip out of her soulful voice.”
Lovers & Friends is, in effect, a new beginning for Diaz and a fresh destination for what's been a long musical path. A lyric video for “Another Observer” is expected to be release in the coming days.
About Irene Diaz:
Throughout her life, Irene Diaz has always been about The Search. For identity. For expression. For music and her place in it, and for a creative community and direction that best serves her mission.All of that can be found in Diaz's songs and on Lovers & Friends, the California singer-songwriter's debut full-length album which was recorded in both Mexico City and Los Angeles. With its captivating melodies and richly nuanced ambience, it introduces Diaz as an artist who's taken many paths to get to this point, and is excited to find even more creative roads to travel as she moves forward. She was raised in Los Angeles' Highland Park neighborhood in a devoted Christian household. She herself learned piano and then started playing acoustic guitar—a kind of teen "rebellion" against her father's electric guitar focus—and began writing mostly religious songs when she was 16 years old. As she moved through colleges—including Marymount College, Pasadena City College and Seattle Pacific University—Diaz ultimately pulled away from the church and her religious faith. Things ultimately began taking shape after Diaz connected with fellow singer-songwriter Carla Morrison, a Latin Grammy award-winner, who executive-produced her forthcoming album, Lovers & Friends, and introduced Diaz to brothers Alejandro and Demian Jimenez, a Mexico City-based duo that began enhancing Diaz's songs with electronic soundscapes and moody textures that envelope and elevate her lyrics. Lovers & Friends is, in effect, a new beginning for Diaz and a fresh destination for what's been a long musical path. What began in 2013 with theI Love You Madly EP—and praise fromNPR’s Felix Contreras raving “her sheer power belies her compact stature, and her musical impact is simply immense”—Diaz is anxious to take the new music on the road and play live.