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P.O. BOX 8554 • OMAHA, NE 68108-0554 / 4538 EAGLE ROCK BLVD • LOS ANGELES, CA 90041 • SADDLE-CREEK.COM AUGUST 27TH, 2021 • LP pressed on “Shopping Cart Yellow” vinyl. TRACK LISTING 01. 17 3:06 • Indie Exclusive LP limited to 1,000 copies pressed on “Tangerine” marbled vinyl. 02. Darker Than Death 3:13 • LP includes digital download. 03. Die/Cry 2:26 04. Pretty Pictures 2:58 “Everything has to be said.” This is the conviction guiding Indigo De Souza’s sophomore album, Any Shape You 05. Real Pain 4:50 Take. This dynamic record successfully creates a container for the full spectrum—pushing through and against 06. Bad Dream 4:52 every emotion: “I wanted this album to give a feeling of shifting with and embracing change. These songs came 07. Late Night Crawler 4:17 from a turbulent time when I was coming to self-love through many existential crises and shifts in perspective.” 08. Hold U 4:17 09. Way Out 4:02 Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. “The album title 10. Kill Me 4:20 is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. I don’t feel that I fully embody any particular genre—all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,” says Indigo. This sonic range is Artist: Indigo De Souza unified by Indigo’s strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in Title: Any Shape You Take her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. Written in quick succession, Indigo sees these two records as Catalog #: LBJ-318 companion pieces, both distinct but in communion with each other: “Many of the songs on these two records Formats: CD / LP / Indie Exclusive LP came from the same season in my life and a certain version of myself which I feel much further from now.” Street Date: August 27, 2021 Throughout Any Shape You Take, Indigo reflects on her relationships as she reckons with a deeper need to Genre: Alternative redefine how to fully inhabit spaces of love and connection.“It feels so important for me to see people through change. To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. This album is a reflection of that. I have undergone so much change in my life and I am so deeply grateful to the PRESS PROMOTION people who have seen me through it without judgment and without attachment to skins I’m shifting out of.” Grandstand (US) Eloy Lugo - [email protected] Meghan Growing up in a conservative small town in the mountains of North Carolina, Indigo started playing guitar Helsel - [email protected] when she was nine years old. “Music was a natural occurrence in my life. My dad is a bossa nova guitarist and singer from Brazil and so I think I just had it in my blood from birth.” It wasn’t until moving to Asheville, NC that Prescription (UK) Indigo began to move into her current sound, developing a writing practice that feeds from the currents that James Parrish - [email protected] surround her: “Sometimes it feels like I am soaking up the energies of people around me and making art from a space that is more a collective body than just my own.” RADIO PROMOTION College, Commercial & Specialty Radio At the forefront of all De Souza’s projects is her magnetism—her unique quality of spirit that is both buoyant [email protected] and wise. While her backing band has undergone shifts between releases, her sound has stayed tethered to her vision. Any Shape You Take is the first full-length album that Indigo produced herself. Teaming up with executive MASTER USE LICENSING producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, The War on Drugs) and engineers/producers Alex Farrar and Adam US - [email protected] McDaniel, Indigo recorded the album at Betty’s, Sylvan Esso’s studio in Chapel Hill, NC and finished it with UK/Europe - [email protected] additional production and mixing at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville. Moving past the limitations of a home studio, Indigo could finally embody the full reach of her sound: “It felt really exciting to lean into my pop INTERNATIONAL LICENSING & DISTRO tendencies more than I have in the past and to trust my intuition to take the songs where I felt they should go. [email protected] I had the tools to do it and collaborators who were willing to go there with me.” “I feel very much like a shape-shifter with my music, I’m always trying to embody a balance between the existential weight and the overflowing sense of love I feel in the world.” It is exactly this balance that Indigo strikes in her Saddle Creek debut, Any Shape You Take. A listening experience that gives back, as you shed and shape-shift along with her. LP LP Indie Exclusive CD Shopping Cart Yellow vinyl Tangerine marbled vinyl 4 panel wallet, 16 panel poster LP NOT RETURNABLE Marisa Anderson & William Tyler Lost Futures Thrill - 542 CD *90377-A5422-4 LP Vinyl is non-returnable *9037H-A5421-7 BLUE LP Vinyl is non-returnable *90377-54211-0 GENRE : Folk / Americana LISTEN HERE FILE UNDER : “A” for Anderson, “T” for Tyler Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler distill deeply rooted and RELEASE DATE : August 27th, 2021 varied traditions into distinctive voices all their own. Anderson and Tyler are each unyielding in their desire to extend through those traditions and the confines of “guitar music” to craft music at once intimate and expansive, TRACK LISTING: conversational and transcendent. The duo’s debut collaborative album tethers together their singular voices into unified narratives that glisten, drive, 1. News About Heaven 5. At the Edge of the World and sway. On Lost Futures, Anderson and Tyler’s guitars dance through lush 2. Lost Futures 6. Hurricane Light arrangements and pastoral duets serpentine and reverent. 3. Pray for Rain 7. Life and Casualty 4. Something Will Come 8. Haunted By Water The duo met in Portland, as Anderson tells it, “There was an obvious and immediate affinity musically and personally which led to the feeling that SALES POINTS we should try and do something together, but in January of 2020, both of us had pretty full schedules so it was more of a vague idea to do something, Anderson and Tyler’s debut live performance as a duo was at someday… then COVID hit.” With tours sidelined and the increasing Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival in 2020 tensions of isolation, unrest and ecological disaster looming, the duo set to composing and collaborating remotely. Tyler joined Anderson in Portland Limited indies-only blue color vinyl available. for a week before recording as protests across the city escalated and raging wildfires cast a dangerous haze. Against the tumultuous backdrop the duo Package features artwork by Sam Smith. found harmony in their quick, organic development as a compositional team. Rich ballads and breezy rambles flourished as the duo explored new All LP versions include artworked inner-sleeve featuring pho- rhythmic techniques and elaborated on unused riffs. In uniting to meditate tography by Marisa Anderson. on their musical practices together, the two guitarists composed music filled with the joy of playing together while having a sober tone reflective of the Marisa Anderson and William Tyler are both prolific solo art- troubled state of the world around them. ists. Tyler has also toured with groups including Lambchop and Silver Jews, and Marisa has contributed to recordings by Beth Lost Futures takes its name from writer Mark Fisher’s cultural theory of the Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux among others. loss of potential futures, the hopes and ideals which once felt inevitable but have since been interrupted. Anderson and Tyler’s use of textural Lost Futures features guests Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez on drones, rhythmic repetition and harmonic shifts embody the building violin and Patricia Vázquez Gómez playing quijada. tensions of uncertainty created by profound loss: loss of life, experience, companionship, compassion. Across Lost Futures, Anderson and Tyler mold “[Anderson is] one of this era’s most powerful players.” - NPR their instruments into breathtaking panoramas of blight and bliss. Each First Listen movement contains a dense biome of transportive sound. The duo’s music together reckons with mounting pressures as well as the joy of newfound “One of the best emotional mediums in the field of solo guitar, friendship and gratitude for being able to play together. In tandem, Marisa Anderson is a master of lovely melancholy.” - Pitchfork Anderson and William Tyler have composed a work of remarkable breadth, brimming with resplendent odes of solace. “Tyler has always paired the sprawling sound of Americana with the ugliness that can reside within its expanse. 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