Fortunately, Indigo De Souza has not been constrained musically either, because her third album sounds just as rough, uninhibited and quirky as the previous two. Also on “All Of This Will End”, the American musician easily switches between indie pop and indie rock, but where she sometimes missed the mark on her previous two albums, the quality of the songs on “All Of This Will End” is a lot higher and more consistent. The American musician has a new band and is working with producer Alex Farrar, who has provided a quality boost.
Indigo De Souza opts for an overwhelming start on her third album. The first six tracks on “All Of This Will End” don’t make it to the three-minute mark, and they all sound pretty full or even overwhelming. The music of Indigo De Souza sometimes had a lo-fi character on her first two albums, but album number three has a pretty full production.
It does not mean that the predicate lo-fi no longer applies to the music of the American musician, because the songs on “All Of This Will End” can also rattle pleasantly. In the first six tracks of her new album, Indigo De Souza pours out a lot of good ideas about the listener. These are partly wrapped in mainly electronically colored songs, but the musician from North Carolina does not shy away from the sturdy guitars either.
They are quite catchy songs that Indigo De Souza comes up with, but fortunately her songs also remain wonderfully stubborn, with here and there a musical derailment and of course the occasional out-of-control vocals of the American musician. This time it goes in multiple directions musically, but just like on her previous albums, Indigo De Souza gets away with it easily.
I don’t even find it that easy to explain what I like about the songs of Indigo De Souza, but with “All Of This Will End“, the American musician convinced me almost immediately. It is the merit of the excellent songs, but also the merit of the whimsy in the music of Indigo De Souza, which ensures that her songs can also brush against the hair and stimulate the imagination.
After the short tracks at the beginning of the album, Indigo De Souza takes more time for her songs on the second half of the album, she shows more often that she is an excellent singer and proves once again that she can also work far beyond indie pop and indie rock, for example with the particularly beautiful psychedelic country song “Younger & Dumber”, which is quite far removed from the songs with which the album opens.
For the third time in a row, Indigo De Souza shows that she is full of quirky talent, which flourishes even more on “All Of This Will End” thanks to better songs and a somewhat less dark view of life, which ensures that the great songs of the American musician impose themselves even more emphatically than those on her previous albums.
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