More about: Indigo De Souza

Follow on from smash singles ‘Kill Me’ and ‘Hold U’, Indigo de Souza is back with another gorgeous offering from her upcoming album Any Shape You Take, out 27 August on Saddle Creek. The new track ‘Real Pain’ was created with recordings of her fans.

‘Real Pain’ is without a doubt her most complex song yet, using audio clips of her fans screaming and yelling to build up to a real feeling of catharsis as she grapples with grief and loss throughout. The contradiction of beautiful vocals with layers of screams that border on a kind of unsettling horror result in a track that’s unlike anything we’ve heard before.

Here, she described the process of creating such unique sounds:

“For one of the sections in the song, I put out an invitation for people to anonymously send me voice memos of "screams, yells, and anything else". I layered the voices on top of one another to embody a kind of collective experience. I felt an incredible catharsis hearing their voices stacked with mine. While we live such separate lives, we are connected in the way that we all navigate immense amounts of pain and love and fear in our bodies every day. It can be hard to be a person! It's okay to acknowledge that sometimes. It's okay to feel things fully and to allow others space to do the same."

Any Shape You Take is out August 27 on Saddle Creek.

More about: Indigo De Souza