After revealing plans for her third and latest album All of This Will End with the combination tearjerker/goosebump-giver “Younger and Dumber,” Indigo De Souza is proving her range with that record’s second single. “Smog” sees her pivoting from the swelling instrumental and hint of pedal steel to a bedroom-pop jam seemingly custom built for moments of private ecstasy similar to the conditions in which the tune was written early in the pandemic.
“I was living alone on a dead end street surrounded by neighbors who were seemingly always mowing their lawns,” De Souza recalled in a press release. “I remember having a lot of anxiety during the day, navigating the newly awkward and uncertain experience of doing anything mid world freak-out. I was in an emotional state that felt like a cross between delirious joy and a real tired hopelessness. Everything felt unknown and distant. ‘Smog’ is mostly about that strange time and how it felt in my house, alone. When the neighborhood was asleep, and all the lawnmowers stopped, I felt free to make anything and sing anything I wanted.”
Arriving with the upbeat track is a music video that plays into the modern anxiety of never being safe from a flash mob and, ultimately, leaning into it. Check it out below, and anticipate All of This Will End’s arrival on April 28 via Saddle Creek.
