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    PREACHING TO A NEW CHOIR

    Sep 19, 2022 5 minutes

    For 11 years, Isabella Manfredi was best known as the energised and effervescent, grooveriding force that fronted Sydney indie-pop outfit The Preatures. However short their tenure may have been, the quintet remain venerable icons in the realm of Australian pop – so when she split The Preatures up to embark on a solo career, Manfredi was eager not to shed what made them so great.

    Her debut solo album is named for the alter ego she adopted in The Preatures – the “the chrome wheel-spinning character” known as Izzi – with Manfredi’s intent being “to capture her essence, but also create space for my true adult self to have longevity and move beyond her if I needed to”. As she declared bluntly in unveiling the record, “I am Izzi but she is not me.”

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