Precipice
Indie rock songwriter Indigo De Souza finds the deep mysteries of the unknown equal parts intriguing and terrifying on her fourth album, *Precipice*. She walks up to the edge and neither leaps nor retreats, but rather looks with a curiosity that moves from fascinated to morbid at a moment’s notice. Throughout *Precipice*, De Souza gazes at the future and gives its uncertainty her full attention. Take “Crying Over Nothing,” a playful shuffle that dazzles with shimmering synths and De Souza’s near falsetto. On the track, she recalls taking all day to respond to texts, the pain in moving on from a relationship, the physical ache that comes alongside the dissolution of love. She’s in limbo. Elsewhere, she urges herself towards some sort of equilibrium on standout cut “Be Like the Water.” Over handclaps, DIY percussion, and Rhodes piano chords, De Souza encourages her subject to move through this world with joy and adaptability, leaning on deceptively simple advice: “Be like the water/Go where you’re going.”
Precipice captures Indigo De Souza’s impressive growth as a songwriter while adding to the contemporary pop canon.
The weird warping of Indigo De Souza’s ferocity threads through the beautiful on her fourth album, keeping it from drifting into placidity, stubbornly insisting on weirdness and individuality as a precondition of greatness.
We meet Indigo de Souza on the edge. But the expanse ahead of us, the void Indigo is screaming - almost falling - into isn’t the point this time.
Precipice attempts to tackle big emotions with a newly air-tight pop formula. Read Ivy Skarda's review on Indigo De Souza's latest album