Dear Looper,
I met Isadora Decker-Lucke and Sumner Erhard soon after moving to Denver in 2021. They were friends of my girlfriend (now fiancée) and part of a local indie-rock scene I’d get to know more intimately as the months passed. I knew Isadora wrote her own music and Sumner played drums in another band from the scene, Corsicana. They were friendly and funny, cracking jokes, sharing memes and performing convincing impressions of Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad.
Little did I know that at the time, Isadora and Sumner were hard at work on a new album. forget what makes it glow, released July 14 as Isadora Eden, is eleven songs of slow, tender rock that draws the curtains and invites you to burrow underneath the covers. The band released four music videos leading up to the album, including for standout single “Haunted":
Isadora and Sumner, along with the rest of the band, played forget what makes it glow front to back at the Marquis Theater the day it was released, capping the (pre-encore) show with a spectacular cover of the Police’s “Every Breath You Take.” It was a blessed, heartwarming performance that convinced me to invite the couple over for a barbecue & interview.
We recorded a podcast for this return edition of Loops, in which we talk about ghosts, busted tour vans, flying jetpacks onstage, and their new album. Listen to it below.
Isadora Eden is one of many Denver bands playing this weekend at the Underground Music Showcase. I’ll be there throughout the festival and hope to come back with a dispatch next week. (Or even before the festival, though I’m as curious as everyone else.)
I’m thinking Loops is back.
Write to you again soon,
Miguel
Podcast No. 4: The happy ghosts of Isadora Eden