Circuit des Yeux's complex, masterful Reaching for Indigo is a prog opera of slow, complex instrumentation and cinematic pop.
Reaching For Indigo, indeed, is awe personified.
Reaching for Indigo stands out as her most fully-realized and ambitious effort that paradoxically is also characteristically fluid and ambiguous.
With Reaching for Indigo, Fohr has done a remarkable job at translating a hard-to-define, life-changing event into powerful music.
While it gives a feeling of unease, Indigo is actually about seeking to understand through self-identification. And ultimately, having to move forward with what’s outside of her immediate scope.
Reaching for Indigo is a heady brew of Fohr’s songwriting, voice, and twelve-string guitar playing co-mixing with an ace cast of collaborators. It’s a fully-realized synthesis of her distinctiveness and her desire for community—and it’s a revelation.
With her perplexing, low voice -- matched with slick, abundant experimentation -- Reaching for Indigo transcends the traditional appeal of a singer-songwriter.
Great album, it's really sad how underrated it is.
Favs: Brainshift, Black Fly, Philo, Paper Bag and A Story of This World Part II.
Some parts of this album dig straight into my heart. 'Black Fly' kind of blows my mind every time I hear it, there is a haunted beauty in depth of her voice. While at times her low voice works to charge her music with a spiritual intensity, there are times where she swallows her vowels too much, and it sounds heavy and a little ridiculous. I do think overall it is a pretty compelling listen!
1 | Brainshift 4:20 | 74 |
2 | Black Fly 7:26 | 85 |
3 | Philo 6:13 | 83 |
4 | Paper Bag 5:11 | 83 |
5 | A Story of This World Part II 4:04 | 74 |
6 | Call Sign E8 0:25 | |
7 | Geyser 2:47 | |
8 | Falling Blonde 4:17 | 81 |
#10 | / | The Wire |
#19 | / | No Ripcord |
#36 | / | musicOMH |
#41 | / | Noisey |
#94 | / | Drowned in Sound |
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