With a New Pop Document—and New California Life-style—Indigo De Souza Finds Readability

From their first blind session collectively in a Los Angeles studio, Kozel and De Souza discovered their collaborative spark. The musician, recognized for her exhilarating, earnest indie sound, had been procuring round for producers to assist her propel a long-held ambition to make all-out, ocean-deep emotive pop music. An album wasn’t even on the playing cards—“I just became enthralled with Elliott and what we were making,” she says. “Then, suddenly, most of Precipice was there.”

They’ve made 11 resplendent tracks that embrace De Souza’s open-hearted lyricism, by way of which she considers psychological well being, her personal questionable choices, and falling out and in of affection—all with frenetic pop power. After that, they saved recording, De Souza visiting LA from her house in a small mountain village in western North Carolina.

When De Souza was on tour final fall, Hurricane Helene destroyed her house and most of her possessions—save for a favourite guitar, laptop computer, and a few childhood trinkets her roommates managed to save lots of. She went again to LA to course of that with Kozel and wrote a complete different file. “It was without any expectation or direction,” she says. “That’s more grunge, guitar-centered, with a bit of pop, and some very sad ballads.” It’s already been recorded—that, together with one other, earlier undertaking that she describes as leaning “experimental country.”

It have to be unusual, I posit to De Souza, for works and items of artwork made after experiencing such huge feelings and hardships to return out in a twisted timeline. “It’s funny,” she says. “I’m at the whim of how the industry works.”

But with Precipice comes a readability. “This was made with maybe my clearest sense of vision, and knowing my emotions in a new way,” she says. “It’s scary but sublime. I’m embracing the chaos. And though it might not be fully uncomplicated or clear all the time, I feel energized by this vision.”

Below, Indigo De Souza talks to Vogue about pop, discovering her folks (and a brand new house) in LA, and never fearing the precipice anymore.

Photo: Hannah Sommer