Little Dog Star, the recording project of British songwriter Izzy Steele, announced on Instagram Friday that her second EP Something Infinite has passed 100,000 streams, a milestone that lands less than two months after the record arrived and less than two weeks before the first of two sold-out headline shows.
“My EP something infinite just hit 100k streams,” Steele wrote. She said she loves the songs and found “so much freedom” making them, and that the experience left her certain this was the work she wanted to be doing. She described the collection as music to be blasted in the car with the roof down forever, a line she paired with a photo of herself riding along a country road in a convertible with the top open, and she thanked listeners for tuning in and for being on the journey with her before turning toward the live dates ahead. “Let’s sing it together in 2 weeks,” she wrote.
Something Infinite was released on July 17 as a Polydor Records and Hunger Records release, and TDN covered the EP when it arrived as the second chapter in one of the more unusual career pivots in British indie pop. The record is a compact one, four songs across eleven and a half minutes, opening with lead single “Radio Show” and moving through the title track and “Put Some Miles On It” before closing on “Who I Was Looking For.” There is no filler on it, and the brevity feels deliberate rather than thin.
Steele spent close to a decade as a working actor in UK television, with credits including the long-running rural soap opera Emmerdale and the BBC children’s drama The Dumping Ground, before stepping away from that career to write and record full time. Her debut EP National Disgrace came out independently, and the attention it drew from the British music press arrived before any label paperwork did. That order matters. She did the unglamorous version first, releasing songs on her own terms with nothing behind her, and the deal followed the music rather than launching it.
“Radio Show” remains the clearest entry point for new listeners, a guitar-forward track that builds into a distorted chorus and that Steele has described as the moment she located her own sound. Critics have reached for Alanis Morissette and The Cranberries as touchstones, though the production sits comfortably alongside contemporary acts like The Japanese House and The War on Drugs, two of the artists Steele has named among her own favorites. She sums up her sound in three words: raw, humorous, assertive. All three land.
The two weeks Steele referenced point to her first headline run. She plays The Castle in Manchester on September 23 and Third Man Records in London on September 24, and both nights are already sold out. When tickets went on sale in July, Manchester cleared in under an hour and London followed immediately after, a response Steele called humbling at the time. Selling out a hometown room and a London room back to back is a meaningful marker for any artist at this stage, and the streaming milestone arriving in the same stretch suggests the audience she built online is showing up in person too.
Steele now counts roughly 125,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts as @littledogstarr, and her back catalog has continued to pick up new listeners through the summer. Trevor Decker News has made a continued commitment to covering artists who deserve to be heard, wherever they are in their career and whoever is behind them, and Little Dog Star is exactly the kind of act that commitment exists for. This is a songwriter who gave up a functioning career because the songs would not leave her alone, and who built her audience one room and one listener at a time rather than arriving on a franchise tie-in or an algorithmic push. Something Infinite is streaming now on all major platforms.