Biography
Indigo De Souza crafts intimate yet restless indie rock that confronts letdown, interpersonal strain, and personal reckoning. After issuing two concise early projects, she unveiled her first album, I Love My Mom, in 2018. Saddle Creek subsequently signed her, re-releasing that debut only weeks ahead of the volatile Any Shape You Take in 2021. Two years later, All of This Will End retained a raw edge while signaling greater confidence, evident in her decision to limit external input during studio experiments. The playful EP WHOLESOME EVIL FANTASY arrived in 2024.
Born in the small community of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and later settling in Asheville, De Souza captured her inaugural EP, Boys, inside a friend’s garage as a teenager in 2016. The three-song follow-up, don’t cry just do, was tracked the next year at New Galaxy Records alongside producer and instrumentalist Ethan Baechtold.
Assembling her most compelling material from recent years, she laid down her debut full-length on tape at a friend’s residence alongside Owen Stone and Jake Lenderman (aka MJ Lenderman), who shared production duties and performed as her supporting ensemble. The resulting I Love My Mom carried a more unrefined, dissonant character when self-released in June 2018. Saddle Creek recognized its potential and issued an official label edition with vinyl pressing in June 2021. Co-produced by De Souza and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), the next album, Any Shape You Take, appeared the following month in August. During this period she launched her first headlining tour, while the single “Hold U” reached the Top 40 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart.
She wrote her subsequent album rapidly and tracked it with her group—including guitarist Dexter Webb and drummer Avery Sullivan—at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville. All of This Will End contributor Alex Farrar (Angel Olsen, Suki Waterhouse) handled recording and co-production, and the record emerged on Saddle Creek in April 2023. WHOLESOME EVIL FANTASY, her debut EP for Loma Vista, was released in 2024.
Born in the small community of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and later settling in Asheville, De Souza captured her inaugural EP, Boys, inside a friend’s garage as a teenager in 2016. The three-song follow-up, don’t cry just do, was tracked the next year at New Galaxy Records alongside producer and instrumentalist Ethan Baechtold.
Assembling her most compelling material from recent years, she laid down her debut full-length on tape at a friend’s residence alongside Owen Stone and Jake Lenderman (aka MJ Lenderman), who shared production duties and performed as her supporting ensemble. The resulting I Love My Mom carried a more unrefined, dissonant character when self-released in June 2018. Saddle Creek recognized its potential and issued an official label edition with vinyl pressing in June 2021. Co-produced by De Souza and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), the next album, Any Shape You Take, appeared the following month in August. During this period she launched her first headlining tour, while the single “Hold U” reached the Top 40 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart.
She wrote her subsequent album rapidly and tracked it with her group—including guitarist Dexter Webb and drummer Avery Sullivan—at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville. All of This Will End contributor Alex Farrar (Angel Olsen, Suki Waterhouse) handled recording and co-production, and the record emerged on Saddle Creek in April 2023. WHOLESOME EVIL FANTASY, her debut EP for Loma Vista, was released in 2024.
Albums
Precipice
2025
All of This Will End
2023
Smog
2023
Younger & Dumber
2023
Any Shape You Take
2021
I Love My Mom
2018
Singles
