"Guitar is really emotional for me"
Total Guitar|June 2023
Indigo De Souza is Gen-Z alt-pop’s rising star – aided by guitar-playing best friend Dexter Webb
By Jenna Scaramanga
"Guitar is really emotional for me"

It’s not often we end up discussing existential questions in TG interviews, but raw honesty is essential to the music of Indigo De Souza. “Being vulnerable has never felt like a task for me,” she says. “Knowing that I’m gonna die one day has never felt scary. It doesn’t feel like my experience is actually special enough for me to feel very protective about it.”

That blunt acceptance of the human condition fills All Of This Will End, her third album. North Carolina-born Indigo was just 21 when she self- released 2018’s I Love My Mom. The buzz from her garage pop debut grew until Saddle Creek records picked it up for re-release in 2021, followed rapidly by her sophomore effort Any Shape You Take.

All Of This Will End continues that indie journey. “You’re bad/You suck/ You f*cked me up,” she sings on the opening track Time Back. It’s arresting to hear such unvarnished expression of feeling. Indigo tells you what she means, undefended and uncryptically. Although there’s a radical acceptance of her own mortality, All Of This Will End is an optimistic album, embracing the opportunity to be alive. While the lyrics are at times shockingly straightforward, the arrangements are unexpectedly complex. It’s a striking contrast. “It feels important for the arrangements to be as flailing and wild and complicated as they are at times because that’s how it feels inside my brain,” she reveals.

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