Indigo De Souza catalogues another set of anxious emotions on her sophomore album, 'Any Shape You Take', and brings more bite and punch this time around.
When it comes to indie rock, you will find artists that stick to respectful, but not explosive tunes, and there are artists that swirl around the scene and make something spark, and Indigo De Souza fits on the latter mold. Her debut album may be playing to plain tunes, but her vocals and melodies leap and shake, paired with the lyricism that shows anxious and exhausted feelings, especially towards love.
Her sophomore album spikes in quality even more. The instrumentation expands upon as synths, vocal effects, and vocal collage allow Indigo De Souza’s lyrical anxiousness and crisis towards relationships and self-love to hit even harder. Her melodies and performances burst and soothe at the same time, breaking at its darker and calming at its brightest. It’s a balancing point that is executed wondrously, even despite certain tracks ending abruptly or doesn’t go all the way in their buildups.
There is something to seek in a whirlpool-like this. A spiral of emotions as it hits you on one side and pats you on the other. Now that the anxiousness of her records may be gone at this point, there might be a swerve that she will take in the future, a swerve that may present her rainbows & rays of sunshine after a stormy rain.
Favorite Tracks: Real Pain, Kill Me, 17, Hold U, Darker Than Death, Bad Dream, Late Night Crawler Least Favorite Track: Die/Cry