User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The latest full-length release from North Carolina artist Indigo De Souza was recorded in Los Angeles with Elliott Kozel.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Loma Vista Recordings
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 6 out of 8
-
Mixed: 2 out of 8
-
Negative: 0 out of 8
-
Jul 23, 2025She’s brought herself to the very edge creatively, and the resulting album is stunning. She has earned this moment of glorious reflection.
-
Jul 23, 2025Precipice is that rare album that brings together vulnerability, self-reflection, and the trademarks of a mainstream milestone: super earworms, coolly cosmopolitan sonics, and a voice that grows more compelling with each track. Precipice is De Souza’s “arrival” album and a singular addition to the contemporary pop canon.
-
Jul 23, 2025When the record opens up into “Not Afraid” and the title track—twin attempts to reckon with fork-in-the-road moments of seeing life at its darkest and refusing to let go of hope—you get Indigo De Souza at her finest: employing pop conventions while still keeping the arrangements and musicality strange enough, ethereal enough… really, her enough.
-
UncutJul 23, 2025Though her songs deliver a sugar rush and some soar like helium balloons, they're anything but insubstantial. [Sep 2025, p.31]
-
Jul 28, 2025Precipice is not without excellent hooks, and the ones on “Crying Over Nothing,” “Not Afraid,” and “Heartthrob” let De Souza’s star power shine through. But when a record’s great moments are just that—moments—waiting on them is tedious.
-
Jul 23, 2025It was just a few years ago where her calling card was that distinctive wailing falsetto, one that could crash into a ragged growl in a moment's notice. It's noticeably absent on a record being held from anonymity by a single safeguard.
-
Jul 24, 2025All told, Precipice is enjoyably hooky, but taking the edge off of her sound and, ultimately, songs doesn't do their emotional weight any favors, even if -- or rather because -- it makes them go down easier.