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Vulnerable yet valiantly inventive
Through a variety of styles & influences, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza showcases her unbridled creativity with flair on album number three All Of This Will End. Not one for pondering too long on any subject matter, very few tracks exceed the four-minute mark. And the project is better for it.
Indigo's fresh approach to sharp indie-pop conveys her distorted groove akin to Lucy Dacus, PJ Harvey and Soccer Mommy. Finding inspiration from a sense of stability, she confesses that her world before now was turbulent. "Up until recently, my life felt chaotic" she said, but a certain catharsis became apparent and allowed a sense of introspection to guide the creation of the album - "My music feels like it's coming from a centered place of reflection".
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Lead single ‘Younger & Dumber’ falls at the end of the record astutely bookending the emotional journey of the album. Looking back across its composition Indigo wistfully reflects on the time it came to her as ‘the worst time in my life and the most unstable I'd ever been.' Despite such a melancholic disposition, the track itself is positive in its ideas; fueled by compassion for her younger self. She speaks of a ‘love’ that she longed for at a time of suffering; one that she could only access by herself; ‘And the love I feel is so very real it can take you anywhere.’
"All Of This Will End demonstrates Indigo at her most vulnerable yet valiantly inventive."
The title, inspired by Indigo’s macabre thinking that everything will come crumbling down,is embraced as a personal mantra. "You could look at it as a sad thing, or you could look at it as a really precious thing: Today I'm alive and at some point, I will not be," she puts plainly. The album certainly reflects such contentment. The lyrics to the title track testify to such a belief. ‘Sometimes it’s not enough / Who gives a fuck / All of this will end’
Driven by the speed of the tracks, Indigo assembled her band at Drop of Sun Studios to work with her previous collaborator Alex Farrar. Featuring confident songs such as the nightlife scampering 'Smog'; ‘I come alive in the night time when everybody else is done’ and the movingly honest ‘Not My Body'; 'The world will love you no matter what you're wearing’. All Of This Will End demonstrates Indigo at her most vulnerable yet valiantly inventive.
Despite this, occasional tracks lack the punch that runs throughout much of the record. 'The Water', though its stark minimalism could be considered charming, regrettably falls short.
Nonetheless, the cutting-room-floor sound of the record often works in its favour, and All of This Will End is verification of Indigo De Souza's noticeable rejuvenation.
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