Indigo De Souza
Precipice
Release Date: Jul 25, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Loma Vista Recordings
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Album Review: Precipice by Indigo De Souza
Great, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 9/10
This sentiment - wisdom wrung from hardship - pervades her new songs. Also, if De Souza has typically narrated her struggles in real time, here she has more distance. If her distinct vocals have often been bathed in grungy instrumentation, her voice is now gloriously unobscured. It wafts above the mix, pointing to newfound clarity - insight into the ways of the world and her own habitual leanings.
Based on rating 7.5/10
For several albums, Asheville indie singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza has been showing off an increasingly prominent penchant for pop songcraft, lacing a synthy undercurrent to highlights like "Hold U" on 2021's Any Shape You Take and "Smog" from 2023's All of This Will End. If those efforts were her flirting with a poppier direction, her WHOLESOME EVIL FANTASY EP last year was a messy whirlwind love affair with the genre, dressing De Souza's emotive vocals in loads of Autotune-soaked hyperpop. It was a divisive choice, but the EP's sudden rollout and offbeat presentation seemed to hint that she had something else in store.
Based on rating 3/5
The dividing line in music fandom, or "criticism" as I'm told we inflate it, is between our envisioned trajectory for an artist and the life that artist wants to live. It seems petty, not to mention intrusive, to assert any form of an opinion on the art an artist naturally sheds into existence - it's the sum total of someone's experiences, why would I ask where I factor in? This is to preface that every time Indigo De Souza releases a new record, she's one step closer to genuine megachurch worship music. It's fascinating that she organically arrived here, and this may be the first point in her journey where I was not completely sold.
Opinion: Fantastic
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 instead feels like a moment suspended in time. We're no longer looking ahead with apprehension, as we do for much of her 2018 debut ‘I Love My Mom’ , nor are we looking back with bittersweet introspection the way we do on its follow up ‘Any Shape You Take’.
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