Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

"Shopping Cart" yellow colored vinyl!

Includes poster insert with lyrics

"Everything has to be said." This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza's sophomore album, Any Shape You
Take. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum — pushing through and against every emotion. Says De Souza: "I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. These songs came from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective."

Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. "The album title
is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. 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. 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. Written in quick succession, De Souza 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."
Throughout Any Shape You Take, De Souza 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. To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. This album is a reflection of that. 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."

Growing up in a conservative small town in the mountains of North Carolina, De Souza started playing guitar
when she was 9 years old. "Music was a natural occurrence in my life. 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, N.C. that De Souza began to move into her current sound, developing 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."

At the forefront of all De Souza's projects is her magnetism-her unique quality of spirit that is both buoyant
and wise. Although her backing band has undergone shifts between releases, her sound has stayed tethered to her vision. Any Shape You Take is the first full-length album that Indigo produced herself. Teaming up with executive producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, The War on Drugs) and engineers/producers Alex Farrar and Adam McDaniel, Indigo recorded the album at Betty's, Sylvan Esso's studio in Chapel Hill, NC and finished it with additional production and mixing at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville. Moving past the limitations of a home
studio, De Souza could finally embody the full reach of her sound: "It felt really exciting to lean into my pop
tendencies more than I have in the past and to trust my intuition to take the songs where I felt they should go.
I had the tools to do it and collaborators who were willing to go there with me."

"I feel very much like a shape-shifter with my music, I'm always trying to embody a balance between the
existential weight and the overflowing sense of love I feel in the world." It is exactly this balance that De Souza
strikes in her Saddle Creek debut, Any Shape You Take. A listening experience that gives back, as you shed and
shape-shift along with her.

Side A

1. 17

2. Darker Than Death

3. Die/Cry

4. Pretty Pictures

5. Real Pain

Side B

1. Bad Dream

2. Late Night Crawler

3. Hold U

4. Way Out

5. Kill Me

Be the first to write a review for this item OR just rate it