Izzy Eyre has always had two languages. The first is film — she grew up at the Orange County School of the Arts, studied at Orange Coast College, and built a creative life in LA where music and filmmaking are never far apart. The second is the song, which was always there first. Since 2023, she’s been releasing music entirely on her own terms: writing, producing, and recording from her bedroom, building a catalog that sounds intimate without feeling small. Her debut EP Tunnel Vision & Bad Decisions, released in January 2026, pulls six songs together into something that feels less like a playlist and more like a confession — melodic, emotionally precise, and self-aware in the way only someone who’s lived the title can be.
SNQLX: You came up making films before you were making music this way. When did those two instincts start to feel like the same impulse?
IZZY: I went to an arts high school called OCSA from 7-12th grade, and while music was always at the forefront of my creative outlet and aspirations, I was exposed to so many other art forms over the years. After taking a film class my sophomore year and finding myself passionate and outspoken about something I hadn’t even considered pursuing, a light bulb went off in my head that I wanted to study film. Music is very instinctual to me, and my approach to it felt (and still feels) very untouched and naive that I really never wanted to “intellectualize” song making. With film on the other hand, there are so many technical aspects, and storytelling aspects that I was interested in learning, so it really just made sense. The best part is, especially after working in music and film for the last 6 years in LA, the two often cross paths, so I really feel like I get the best of both worlds now.
SNQLX: Your Spotify bio calls your music a “main character soundtrack.” How much of your artistry is about giving people permission to be the center of their own story?
IZZY: I’ve always struggled a bit to put myself in a box and describe my music and “main character” just felt right. For me, music is about feeling something, and oftentimes that leans into a bit of melodrama, in the best way. Some of my favorite moments in life are when things feel so dramatic and I’m listening to a song that just really sends that feeling home. I write about experiences I have when I feel exactly that, so I not only give permission, but fully encourage my listeners to be the center of their story, because it’s your life OF COURSE you’re the main character.
SNQLX: Your IG bio says “will prob write a song abt u” — joke, warning, or just how you actually see the world?
IZZY: It’s genuinely a warning haha. I write songs about ex’s, friends, people I had few interactions with… really nobody is safe. But in all seriousness, song writing is how I work through my emotions, and explore my experiences in the world. That being said, because I am the writer, the story is gonna be told from my POV, and I never want to use songs as weapons. But if you did something shitty, and I write a song about it…that’s on you.
SNQLX: Your bedroom is your studio. Does that intimacy protect the work, or does it ever become a pressure?
IZZY: It absolutely protects. I’ve realized that during the writing/production stage, I have to be completely alone (unless I go into something intentionally collaborative) because us song writers sound crazy when we’re figuring it out! I feel very grateful to write and produce my music because I am pretty much in complete solitude when creating and there’s something so liberating about never feeling an ounce of embarrassment, hesitation, or anything like that. Because I’m alone, I can experiment without judgement and THATS when the magic happens.
SNQLX: You’ve been releasing steadily since 2023. When did you know these songs belonged together as one project?
IZZY: To be honest I have so many songs in the vault that I had been teetering on what the next move was. I had a moment of clarity about 3 weeks before releasing that EP that all of these songs should live together on one project. There wasn’t a ton of thought behind it other than “hey I know I’m gonna be releasing more music soon and I don’t want my whole spotify page to just be singles”
SNQLX: “Your room” keeps surfacing in your work — physically, emotionally. What keeps pulling you back to that space?
IZZY: Your Room was the first song I had that took on a life of its own on social media. When that happens, you gotta run with it. To this day, it still gets added to playlists, and I get new listeners because of it. I wrote that song in a few hours, and released it the following week. I feel like it was a great example of just riding the wave.
SNQLX: Tunnel Vision & Bad Decisions reads like a self-diagnosis. What does it feel like to put that title on a body of work and send it out into the world?
IZZY: It’s a lyric from one of my favorite songs, “Cyclone”. When I knew I was gonna put my latest 6 singles on an EP, I wanted a title that felt descriptive but also curious. I’m not a huge fan of using a track title also as an album title, but I love pulling a lyric from the project for that. So when you hear it in the song you’re like OHHHHH.
SNQLX: When you were living the tunnel vision and bad decisions — were you aware of it, or did making the music help you understand it after?
IZZY: Oh boy. I think I was already in way too deep before I was aware. I was also definitely a bit in denial for a while about my feelings, and then I listened back to songs I wrote super early on like “Izzy, you wrote this in FEBRUARY you should’ve known” haha. But that’s why I love songwriting because sometimes I expose myself to myself and I can say things in songs I don’t know how to say in real life.
SNQLX: What’s the thing on this EP you weren’t sure you could pull off?
IZZY: Honestly, feeling like all of the songs are ME. Because I also produce my songs, sometimes I feel like I genre hop and they sound like different artists, but all of these songs really feel like ME.
SNQLX: What does the next version of Izzy Eyre sound like?
IZZY: The next version…what I can say right now is I have been DEEP in the dance/EDM world, and that has definitely influenced my new music. I’m super excited for this next rollout, and I can’t wait for more people to hear my music.
The written interview gets close. It always does. But there’s another version of Izzy Eyre — the one who shows you her MIDI setup on camera, who remembers exactly where she was standing when YOUR ROOM started getting traction, who has a fully formed pitch for what genre Tunnel Vision & Bad Decisions would be if it were a film. That version lives in the conversation below.
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