Prewn shares new single “Dirty Dog,” the track is off the artist’s forthcoming album System, arriving October 3, 2025, via Exploding In Sound Records (Jobber, Sour Windows). “”Dirty Dog” is a song that lives in the nightmarish dreamscape of the unconscious. A place of fear and fearlessness, freudian and a little evil,” explains Los Angeles-based musician Izzy Hagerup, aka Prewn, of the song, out now alongside a video directed, shot, and edited by Christie Clause and Chris Bugnacki. “The song is about a self-serving man who’s abandoned his needy mother and comes crawling back when it’s a little too late.” “Dirty Dog” follows the title track lead single, released earlier this month, System was Written, performed, and recorded entirely by Hagerup.

If System feels immediately uncompromising it’s because it was never really designed for public consumption: Hagerup describes the album as a “private journal made public.”

System follows Prewn’s 2023’s debut album Through The Window. “This new album comes from a much more self-centered place, the stagnant aftermath of intensity and emotion,” Hagerup says. “I think it came from a period of time that was more numb, hollow, and confused. More disassociated from heartfelt pain, more entrenched in a frustrating and aimless discomfort.”

That discomfort manifests itself in various ways throughout System. Each of the songs were a result of random inspiration, and find Hagerup working out of a desperation to record the pieces before the inspiration slipped through her fingers. “I feel in a constant state of writer’s block but I just put myself in the studio for hours and hours, sometimes in agony and desperation for any muse at all,” she explains. “Every once in a blue moon, a nugget gets thrown my way and I run as far as I can with it.”

From a bedroom floor in the middle of the night, through a tangle of cables and complex emotions, System grew into a document of disassociation. But it arrives undercut with a sense of lightness in comparison to Hagerup’s debut, and doesn’t surrender to the darkness. Instead, System dives into it with a keen and exploring eye, and through the gloom finds constant realizations of the wonder and appreciation of life. It’s a journey that holds a special kind of power, a brave struggle that never asks listeners to look away but instead to follow down the rabbit hole. That it leads to a place of fascination is testament to the sheer force these songs hold: songs of hurt and heart, fear and fun.

Prewn 2025 Tour Dates

10/10 – Berlin, DE @ 8mm Fest
10/12 – Berlin, DE @ Dedstrange Vintage
10/23 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left Of The Dial
10/24 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left Of The Dial
10/25 – Rotterdam, NL @ Left Of The Dial

Pre-order Control by Prewn HERE