Indigo De Souza Announces Precipice: Hear “Heartthrob”

Indigo De Souza’s fourth album, Precipice, will arrive July 25. The LP marks the North Carolina songwriter’s first full-length release via Loma Vista Recordings, a partnership teased in 2024 when she released the WHOLESOME EVIL FANTASY EP. Precipice was made with Elliott Kozel, who’s worked with the likes of SZA and FINNEAS, and is De Souza‘s first LP since 2023’s All of This Will End, which landed at #19 on our year-end albums list.“Life feels like always being on the edge of something without knowing what that something is,” De Souza said in a press release. “Music gives me ways to harness that feeling. Ways to push forward in new directions.”

Lead single “Heartthrob” is three minutes long but comes and goes like a blink, chugging upwards into a bluster of ecstatic, anthemic pop-rock. “When I’m a grown-up, I want to have a full cup,” Indigo sings, her voice growing confident with every repetition. The song’s climax, a flash-bulb restraint of guitar mayhem and discordant yelps, sounds spiritual: “I really put my back into it.”

De Souza says of the new single: “I wrote ‘Heartthrob’ as a way to help process something that is often hard to talk about—the harmful ways I’ve been taken advantage of in my physical memory. ‘Heartthrob’ is about harnessing anger, and turning it into something powerful and embodied. It’s about taking back my body and my experience. It’s a big fuck you to the abusers of the world. A sarcastic, angry cry for all bodies that have ever been touched in harmful ways.”