ノースカロライナのミュージシャン、Indigo De Souzaのセカンド・アルバム。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/07/24）

The second full-length from singer/songwriter Indigo De Souza, Any Shape You Take is the North Carolinians first for Saddle Creek, which reissued her debut album a couple months prior in anticipation of its arrival. Doubling down on the debuts raw and candid ethos, the follow-up delves into dysfunctional relationships, death, and despair with a more polished yet still hooky, jagged indie rock co-produced by De Souza and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Before deep-diving into songs with titles like Darker Than Death, Kill Me, and centerpiece Real Pain, it opens with the poppy, Auto-Tuned 17, a synth-based song about ill-fated teenage love with its own dark lyrical bent. Live drums and guitar are introduced on second track Darker Than Death, a midtempo, punchy indie rocker that has our protagonist wondering what she did wrong. When the set list eventually arrives at the lilting Real Pain, it transforms a melancholy dream rock into a cacophony of screams, yells, and anything else that De Souza requested from fans online in the form of anonymous voice memos. That section is underscored by a pounding, in-unison bass and drum, swirling keys, and more, until it abruptly converts into a sleek jammer that stresses, I wanna know its not my fault. She goes on to traverse moody post-punk (Bad Dream), playful funk-pop (Hold U), and a default churning indie rock (including infectious highlight Way Out) before closing the proceedings with Kill Me. Violent and sexually explicit, it revives a stream-of-consciousness laptop-video demo from 2018 that De Souza later forgot ever writing. The song leaves Any Shape You Take on the too-pertinent repeated line: Tell them that I wasnt having much fun. ~ Marcy Donelson

Rovi