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.
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