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PRESS
USA - GRANDSTAND MEDIA
ELOY LUGO
UK - BRACE YOURSELF
AlEX CULL & XENIA OWENS
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WILSON ZHENG & ZACHARY CEPIN
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JAMES ALDERMAN
OWAIN EVANS
N. AMERICA / S. AMERICA
HIGH ROAD
WILSON ZHENG & ZACHARY CEPIN
UK/EU - FREE TRADE AGENCY
JAMES ALDERMAN
OWAIN EVANS
INDIGO SPARKE IS A VESSEL OF RAW EMOTION, A WRITER, MOTHER, MODEL, ARTIST, AND SINGER SONGWRITER WHOSE MUSIC IS A TENDER ACHE THAT DRIFTS BETWEEN SHADOW AND LIGHT. BORN IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AND NOW ROOTED IN THE WINDSWEPT CORNERS OF THE UNITED STATES, SHE CARRIES WITH HER THE WEIGHT OF DISTANCE AND THE INTIMACY OF SILENCE. NAMED AFTER DUKE ELLINGTON’S “MOOD INDIGO,” SPARKE’S VERY NAME HUMS WITH MELANCHOLY AND MOVEMENT—A FITTING PRELUDE TO THE MUSIC SHE CREATES.
HER DEBUT ALBUM ECHO (2021), CO-PRODUCED WITH ADRIANNE LENKER AND ANDREW SARLO, FEELS LIKE A QUIET PRAYER IN AN EMPTY ROOM—FRAGILE, YET BURNING WITH QUIET FEROCITY. PITCHFORK SAID OF THE ALBUM, "AS WITH [BIG THIEF’S ADRIANNE] LENKER, THERE IS A WEIRD MAGNETISM JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE. SPARKE SINGS WITH QUICKSILVER EMOTIONAL FEROCITY, FLICKERING OUT OF HER HEAD VOICE INTO A LOWER REGISTER THAT HINTS AT WILDER, MORE ELEMENTAL FEELINGS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RAPT, THE SILENCES CHARGED. THE LONGER YOU SPEND SINKING INTO HER MUSIC, THE MORE YOU REALIZE ITS ESSENCE IS NOT AIRY, BUT INKY AND DENSE, AND ECHO IS A DARK LITTLE STAR OF INTIMACY AND INTENSITY." ADDITIONALLY GORILLA VS BEAR SAID, “ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND HEART-WRENCHING... FEELS IMPOSSIBLY INTIMATE AND VAST AT ONCE, LIKE A CHERISHED SECRET THAT, ONCE SHARED, BECOMES UNIVERSAL TRUTH." A REFLECTION OF SPARKE’S ABILITY TO HOLD BOTH VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH IN A SINGLE BREATH.
IN 2022, SHE RELEASED HYSTERIA, A BOLD, SPRAWLING CATHEDRAL OF GRIEF, RAGE, AND RESILIENCE, PRODUCED BY AARON DESSNER OF THE NATIONAL. IF ECHO WAS A WHISPER, HYSTERIA IS A HOWL—A RECKONING WITH THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST AND A FEARLESS STEP INTO THE UNKNOWN. CRITICS PRAISED ITS RAW BEAUTY, WITH PITCHFORK CALLING IT “A MAGNETIC WORK THAT CARRIES A RARE AND REFLECTIVE POWER.”
SPARKE’S VOICE HUNG IN THE AIR LIKE SMOKE, FILLING THE SPACE WITH A HAUNTING STILLNESS. EACH NOTE FELT LIKE A THREAD PULLED FROM THE FABRIC OF HER OWN HEART, OFFERING LISTENERS NOT SONGS, BUT STORIES—WOUNDS LAID BARE AND SEWN BACK TOGETHER. WITH LYRICS THAT “BOTH CUT HARD AND COMFORT” BOB BOILEN SPEAKS OF HER PERFORMANCE ON 2020 NPR TINY DESK, AFTER FINDING HER SINGLE “THE DAY I DROVE THE CAR AROUND THE BLOCK” A SONG TITLE WHICH CAUGHT HIS EYE AND LED HIM TO SEE HER PERFORM AT SXSW. LATER REVIEWED BY THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE “SPARKE’S GORGEOUS, SUBDUED FOLK...DEMONSTRATES A SOPHISTICATED SPARSENESS OF FINGERPICKING AND VOICE, COILING INTO A HAUNTED SPACIOUSNESS BRISTLING WITH HEARTBREAK.”
INDIGO SPARKE DOESN’T JUST WRITE MUSIC; SHE CONJURES IT. HER SONGS ARE ELEMENTAL, AS IF BORN FROM THE EARTH AND SKY, CARRIED BY THE WIND TO SETTLE QUIETLY IN THE BONES OF THOSE WHO LISTEN.
HER DEBUT ALBUM ECHO (2021), CO-PRODUCED WITH ADRIANNE LENKER AND ANDREW SARLO, FEELS LIKE A QUIET PRAYER IN AN EMPTY ROOM—FRAGILE, YET BURNING WITH QUIET FEROCITY. PITCHFORK SAID OF THE ALBUM, "AS WITH [BIG THIEF’S ADRIANNE] LENKER, THERE IS A WEIRD MAGNETISM JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE. SPARKE SINGS WITH QUICKSILVER EMOTIONAL FEROCITY, FLICKERING OUT OF HER HEAD VOICE INTO A LOWER REGISTER THAT HINTS AT WILDER, MORE ELEMENTAL FEELINGS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RAPT, THE SILENCES CHARGED. THE LONGER YOU SPEND SINKING INTO HER MUSIC, THE MORE YOU REALIZE ITS ESSENCE IS NOT AIRY, BUT INKY AND DENSE, AND ECHO IS A DARK LITTLE STAR OF INTIMACY AND INTENSITY." ADDITIONALLY GORILLA VS BEAR SAID, “ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND HEART-WRENCHING... FEELS IMPOSSIBLY INTIMATE AND VAST AT ONCE, LIKE A CHERISHED SECRET THAT, ONCE SHARED, BECOMES UNIVERSAL TRUTH." A REFLECTION OF SPARKE’S ABILITY TO HOLD BOTH VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH IN A SINGLE BREATH.
IN 2022, SHE RELEASED HYSTERIA, A BOLD, SPRAWLING CATHEDRAL OF GRIEF, RAGE, AND RESILIENCE, PRODUCED BY AARON DESSNER OF THE NATIONAL. IF ECHO WAS A WHISPER, HYSTERIA IS A HOWL—A RECKONING WITH THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST AND A FEARLESS STEP INTO THE UNKNOWN. CRITICS PRAISED ITS RAW BEAUTY, WITH PITCHFORK CALLING IT “A MAGNETIC WORK THAT CARRIES A RARE AND REFLECTIVE POWER.”
SPARKE’S VOICE HUNG IN THE AIR LIKE SMOKE, FILLING THE SPACE WITH A HAUNTING STILLNESS. EACH NOTE FELT LIKE A THREAD PULLED FROM THE FABRIC OF HER OWN HEART, OFFERING LISTENERS NOT SONGS, BUT STORIES—WOUNDS LAID BARE AND SEWN BACK TOGETHER. WITH LYRICS THAT “BOTH CUT HARD AND COMFORT” BOB BOILEN SPEAKS OF HER PERFORMANCE ON 2020 NPR TINY DESK, AFTER FINDING HER SINGLE “THE DAY I DROVE THE CAR AROUND THE BLOCK” A SONG TITLE WHICH CAUGHT HIS EYE AND LED HIM TO SEE HER PERFORM AT SXSW. LATER REVIEWED BY THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE “SPARKE’S GORGEOUS, SUBDUED FOLK...DEMONSTRATES A SOPHISTICATED SPARSENESS OF FINGERPICKING AND VOICE, COILING INTO A HAUNTED SPACIOUSNESS BRISTLING WITH HEARTBREAK.”
INDIGO SPARKE DOESN’T JUST WRITE MUSIC; SHE CONJURES IT. HER SONGS ARE ELEMENTAL, AS IF BORN FROM THE EARTH AND SKY, CARRIED BY THE WIND TO SETTLE QUIETLY IN THE BONES OF THOSE WHO LISTEN.