Indigo Sparke - Echo

Indigo Sparke - Echo

CD Album £10.99
Red Vinyl LP £18.99

Tracklisting:
1. Colourblind
2. Undone
3. Bad Dreams
4. Carnival
5. Dog Bark Echo
6. Golden Age
7. Wolf
8. Baby
9. Everything Everything

Australian artist Indigo Sparke has signed to Sacred Bones and announced a new release date for her debut album, echo, now due May 21st. 

Of the song Everything Everything, Sparke says "I wrote this song not long after coming back from a magical castle in Italy where a group of us had been making music and soaking in the golden honey days. I met a beautiful human Shahzad Ismaily who had discovered I also write poetry. One night around midnight he called across the castle and asked me to come over and speak some of my poetry over an instrumental track he had recorded. The only thing he asked me to do was to sing a line or so if I felt it. That song was dog bark echo. He invited me back to NYC and I was living in his empty spare room in Brooklyn briefly. I borrowed this little parlour guitar of his and completely fell in love. I just sat in that room for hours and days playing around and just laying next to the guitar looking at the ceiling thinking about life and death and the poetry of it all. How life and death will hold us up to light. How grief ripens inside us all and we all decay and everything changes and flies away. I remember feeling this liberating sense of freedom and melancholic nostalgia. It was so hot and the wind almost blew through from a different dimension or plane. I guess the song came through from that place too. It just came out. I can almost still feel that time on my skin, or in my breath."

Indigo Sparke brings her deeply personal lived experiences to her music, highlighting the spaces between the polarity of softness and grit. Pulling from her experiences of addiction, of healing, of queerness, of heartbreak, of joy, of connection, of the softness and of the grit alchemizing it all into tenderness through her music, she conjures up a myriad of feelings that is undeniably potent.

"With these songs and her filament voice, Indigo brings us in to a private place and lights a fire there." -Feist

"Indigo Sparke balance[s] heavy, reverb-drenched verses with moments of airy and acoustic whispers. This Australian artist tackles themes of vulnerability and femininity with an eye on life through a different lens." -NPR, All Songs Considered

 "Achingly beautiful and heart-wrenching... Feels impossibly intimate and vast at once, like a cherished secret that, once shared, becomes universal truth." -Gorilla vs Bear

 "Gorgeous and gentle... Sparke sings in an ethereal voice of the kind of love that makes you feel safe." -Consequence of Sound 

"If you like the hushed, delicate folk of Adrianne [Lenker]'s own material, you're probably going to like this song too. Indigo is a natural, and this song hooks you in with little more than her voice and guitar." -Brooklyn Vegan