With the sweet, melancholic tones it emotes, River Tiber's debut feels thoroughly, truly blue-violet. Indigo indeed.
Overall, Beesley successfully gathers all the ambient influence of his city into a set of sounds that harnesses many of the best things we might expect from music in Toronto. It’s cynically romantic, urbane, and just a tad bit mopey.
Each aspect of Indigo is impressively mixed to draw the ear to a particular quality of sound or turn of phrase. It’s a slow burn, but not self-indulgent.
This album is mainly ever acknowledged for the Daniel Caesar collab on it but the rest of the album is incredibly overlooked. He has great potential, but it's been over 5 years and he still hasn't released a follow-up LP :/
Favorite tracks: No Talk, Acid Test, Midnight, West, Barcelona, I'm a Stone, Maria, Flood
Least favorite: Motives
#43 | / | Variance |