There is no moment more rewarding than standing in a sold out Philly show begrudgingly screaming “You fucked me up,” along with the absolutely breathtaking Indigo De Souza. Following the April release of All of This Will End, Indigo De Souza began touring mid-May to share this existential masterpiece with a community ever-so-receiving to the messaging behind each skillfully crafted lyric. Packed tightly on a Tuesday night at Union Transfer, fans showed out for a night of collective musical catharsis. Each way you looked you could see someone jumping and shouting spitefully right next to someone welcoming a moment of melancholy tears.
From the anticipation through a haunting opening set by Sluice, all the way to the final chord of Indigo De Souza, the night was swarming with love and release. Strangers alike carried their own emotional weights into the venue only to shed in the light of shared experience. With stories of relatable sung through songs like “You Can Be Mean” and “Younger & Dumber,” the crowd was enveloped in the community that pained experience brings to youth.
Candidly humanizing the room, Indigo asked if the crowd was having a shitty day and said that still coming out to events like this one is exactly what all that pain is about. She also opened up about her experience being taken advantage of by older men and the role of substances in her journey while reminding the crowd that these are not the milestones of youth. Rather, showing up and showing out to what it is and who you love is the core essence of existence. Taking the crowd on a journey through broken vows and mourned youth, the night was a beautiful cacophony of rebirth. If there was one ever present message of the night, rest assured, All of This Will End.
