In anticipation of her debut album Kira Krash, set to arrive on October 23, DJ Suzy today shares her final single – the cinematic ‘end scene’. LISTEN HERE + PRE-SAVE THE LP HERE.

Hot off her London performance with London label Scenic Route and her Nourished By Time collaboration last month, DJ Suzy’s new single ‘end scene’ highlights DJ Suzy’s layered harmonies that shine through her references to the Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy that Suzy grew up glued to. Replete with cinema references – “don’t go down into the basement” – DJ Suzy plays with the idea of writing a script for a relationship. Left confused and overlooked, she is grasping her way free from her ‘Kira World’, as her alter-ego lives with the damage the storm has done.

An extension of her previous hits ‘why did i say i loved you’, ‘speedboat’ and ‘sw33t’, DJ Suzy’s songwriting never shies away from difficult truths, pairing a fluency in pop songcraft with inventive production that is steeped in y2k nostalgia and the intrigue of dial-up internet culture. On ‘end scene’ she reveals “In ‘end scene’, I’m looking back on a relationship as if it were a movie. I wrote a script for how I wanted the relationship to unfold, but my lover didn’t follow it the way I had imagined. 

The chorus represents the climax of the movie, the moment when our relationship comes to an end. “Now I watch the credits roll by,” I sing in the outro, as the credits become a metaphor for the life we shared slowly fading away. I love how the dramatic chords and strings play together with the emo-pop melodies, i’m really happy how it turned out.”

Named after her chaotic alter ego, DJ Suzy’s Kira Krash tells visceral and immersive stories. Inviting listeners into a dollhouse fantasy that’s equal parts dreamy and destructive, Kira Krash is built on a foundation of bubbling synths, G-funk basslines, alt-pop, R&B and breakbeat, as DJ Suzy confronts a version of herself she can no longer outrun in one of her most sonically intimate releases yet.

A trained choral singer and composer, DJ Suzy channels that virtuosity into a sound that’s meticulously layered and experimental, which has driven to master the vocabulary and technicality of producing music. Once feeling the need to handle all elements of production herself, partly as a point of pride as a female producer, she then heard a Solange interview which shifted her thinking about the beauty of working collaboratively. With Kira Krash, DJ Suzy contains her production alongside Oscar Scheller (Pink Pantheress, Kelela) and close collaborators Osrin and Elvira Anderfjärd (Addison Rae), plus contributions from keyboardist Ima Bilgin Baeza and saxophonist Eskil Larsson.

A reflection of her forthcoming album’s themes where she take the nostalgia of video game sonics to soulful, jazz-inflected alt-pop, DJ Suzy has scored BBC Radio 6Music support with a premiere of her Nourished By Time collaboration ‘so sw33t’, soaring radio airplay across BBC Radio 1 and NTS Radio, major DSP editorial and cover placement across the campaign and editorial praise from Dazed, Clash, NME, The Line of Best Fit, Indie Hourzz, Rolling Stone among others. On the live front, this November she will be stopping at Pitchfork Festival in Paris – for more information and ticket details, see below.