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. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RAPT, THE SILENCES CHARGED. SPARKE SINGS WITH QUICKSILVER EMOTIONAL FEROCITY, FLICKERING OUT OF HER HEAD VOICE INTO A LOWER REGISTER THAT HINTS AT WILDER, MORE ELEMENTAL FEELINGS.

PITCHFORK SAID OF THE ALBUM, 'AS WITH LENKER, THERE IS A WEIRD MAGNETISM JUST BENEATH THE SURFACE. THE RECORD RECEIVED MUCH CRITICAL ACCLAIM. IT WAS IN AUSTRALIA THAT SHE MET THE BAND BIG THIEF DOING A SUPPORT SHOW FOR THEM AND GREW CLOSE WITH THE BANDS FRONT WOMAN ADRIANNE LENKER, WHO THEN WENT ON TO CO-PRODUCE INDIGO’S DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED ON SACRED BONES RECORDS, ECHO. FOLLOWING HER STEINER EDUCATION AS A CHILD SHE WENT ON TO ATTEND A PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL AND THEN DID THREE YEARS AT ACTING SCHOOL WHICH ULTIMATELY LED HER TO FOLLOWING HER MUSIC CAREER.

INDIGO WAS BORN IN THE BELLY OF SYDNEY, NEWTOWN, NAMED AFTER THE DUKE ELLINGTON SONG MOOD INDIGO, TO TWO ARTIST MUSICIAN PARENTS WHO BROUGHT HER UP ON JONI MITCHELL AND NEIL YOUNG, SO THE THREAD OF THIS IS WOVEN THROUGH HER BLOOD. 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.” AUSTRALIAN SINGER SONGWRITER, INDIGO SPARKE, SINGS WITH LYRICS THAT “BOTH CUT HARD AND COMFORT” NPRS BOB BOILEN SPEAKS OF HER PERFORMANCE ON 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.

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