My dad is a bossa nova guitarist and singer from Brazil and so I think I just had it in my blood from birth.” It wasn’t until moving to Asheville, NC that Indigo began to move into her current sound,ĭeveloping a writing practice that feeds from the currents that surround her: “Sometimes it feels like I am soaking up the energies of people around me and making art from a space that is more a collective body than just my own.” “Music was a natural occurrence in my life. Growing up in a conservative small town in the mountains of North Carolina, Indigo started playing guitar when she was nine years old. I wanted to write a love song that was painfully simple.” “I wrote ‘Hold U’ after I left that heavy season of my life and was learning how to love more simply and functionally. Simultaneously so deeply in love with that person in a special way that felt very vast and more real than anything I’d ever experienced.”Īcross the table from that irreverence sits the sincerity of the single “Hold U,” a more energized, neo soul-inspired love song that substitutes apathy for a genuine expression of care. Lead single “Kill Me,” written during the climax of a dysfunctional relationship, opens with the lines “Kill me slowly/ Take me with you.” This powerful plea, that begins within the quiet strum of a single electric guitar, is diffused by Indigo’s ironic apathy-a slacker rock nonchalance that refuses to take itself seriously: “I was really tired and fucked up from this relationship and I have undergone so much change in my life and I am so deeply grateful to the people who have seen me through it without judgment and without attachment to skins I’m shifting out of.” To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. Throughout Any Shape You Take, Indigo reflects on her relationships as she reckons with a deeper need to redefine how to fully inhabit spaces of love and connection.“It feels so important for me to see people through change. Written in quick succession, Indigo sees these two records as companion pieces, both distinct but in communion with each other: “Many of the songs on these two records came from the same season in my life and a certain version of myself which I feel much further from now.” This sonic range is unified by Indigo’s strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. I don’t feel that I fully embody any particular genre-all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,” says Indigo. “The album title is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. These songs came from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective.”įaithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum-pushing through and against every emotion: “I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. “Everything has to be said.” This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza’s sophomore album, Any Shape You Take.
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