Kianna Review’s - Healing and romanticizing life with De Souza

by Kianna Znika

If you’re ready to heal and romanticize the turning point in your life known as the early-to-mid twenties, Indigo De Souza’s latest album “All of This Will End” is just for you.

Being 25 myself, De Souza was able to touch on a variety of different relatable themes that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently: nostalgia, heartbreak, daddy issues and the honest internal dialogue that comes with growing up.

The album’s nostalgic, indie pop vibes are instantly set with the first track “Time Back” which transported me back to the early 2010’s when I was on Myspace and Tumblr, listening to cool new artists like MGMT. Many of De Souza’s songs contain lyrics that are sad enough to lie down and think to, but the music is upbeat enough to get you to clean the mess that’s been piling up in your room. It’s the perfect album to listen to when you want to feel like the main character in a coming-of-age movie.

There’s a touch of grunge influence in the song “Wasting Your Time” that I really appreciate because it channels a specific frustration that comes with feeling powerless in a connection with someone you know isn’t good for you.

This relatable theme was introduced in “You Can Be Mean” with lyrics such as “I can’t believe I let you touch my body” and the main kicker in the second verse,“I’d like to think you got a good heart/And your dad was just an asshole growing up/But I don’t see you trying that hard to to be better than he is.”

Overall, what I most appreciate about De Souza is how she wrote and expressed a lot of the same things I’ve thought in the privacy of my own head, especially in the songs “Smog” and “Younger and Dumber.” Now I have a soundtrack for this transitional chapter in my life.

De Souza is a rising Brazilian-American artist who writes and co-produces her own original music and collaborates with her mom, Kimberly Oberhammer, when it comes to beautiful album art. She is definitely someone to keep an eye on since “All of This Will End” is only the third studio album in her career. I’m very grateful to have discovered De Souza this year because I genuinely see her only getting bigger in the years to come.