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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jul 25, 2025Her fourth full-length album, Precipice, finds De Souza finally indulging completely in her pop instincts, refracting them through fully realized arrangements and relentlessly vulnerable lyricism.
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UncutJul 23, 2025Though her songs deliver a sugar rush and some soar like helium balloons, they're anything but insubstantial. [Sep 2025, p.31]
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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.