On their 2018 debut album Baby Teeth, Dizzy offered up a batch of lucidly detailed coming-of-age songs, a real-time reflection on the minor tragedies and major disappointments of post-adolescence. As their dream-pop opus drew global acclaim (and won Best Alternative Album at the 2019 Juno Awards), the Oshawa, Ontario-based band found that their finely wrought outpouring had built a powerful bond with their fans-a contingent that frontwoman Katie Munshaw refers to as "our little heartbreak club." Joined by the trio of brothers who make up the rest of Dizzy-drummer Charlie Spencer and his siblings Alex (guitar) and Mackenzie (bass)-Munshaw soon set to work on new music that explores an even more tangled landscape of feelings.
"Baby Teeth was all about the confusion and sadness of my late teens, but this one is more about the qualities about myself that I'm not very proud of," says Munshaw of Dizzy's self-produced sophomore effort, The Sun and Her Scorch, to that end, the album's title serves as a metaphor for the quietly damaging effects of those qualities, both on Munshaw herself and on those in her orbit. "I wanted to be completely honest about the things nobody ever wants to admit, like being jealous of your friends or pushing away the people who love you," she says. "So instead of being about romantic heartbreak, it's really about self-heartbreak."
The Sun and Her Scorch is out now.
