The lead single from the Asheville singer-songwriter’s upcoming album, “All of This Will End”, hits like a flaming missile to the heart. After dressing her disarmingly blunt musings up in Auto-Tuned synth-pop, swirling grunge, rumbling indie rock, and bittersweet funk on her 2021 breakthrough, “Any Shape You Take”, Singer songwriter Indigo De Souza, tries something new on “Younger & Dumber”: honest-to-goodness power balladry.
Think ’90s country-pop queen Faith Hill, but with a smaller budget and a bigger sense of inner turmoil. She started to write the song as a frank conversation with her flailing younger self and delivers every conflicted line as if her life depended on it. “You came to hurt me in all the right places/Made me somebody,” she ruminates, as sombre piano and acoustic guitar accentuate the ache. The song’s apex is both triumphant and destructive, and it’s followed by a guitar solo that seems primed to ascend to the stratosphere before fizzling out on the runway. Soul-baring catharsis has its costs, and De Souza is unafraid, launching a flaming missile at the heart.
Indigo De Souza – New Album: “All of This Will End” out April 28th on Saddle Creek Records
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