

“This video is an ode to a city that has shown me continual moments of both wonder and ferocity. Video director Angela Ricciardi on the “Blue” video: blue waves of love and the sculpture that we built of ours. With harmonies reminiscent of the voices in our heads, Sparke examines love, loss, grief, a newly realized rage, her history, dreams, and the emotional weather patterns surrounding those sensations: her words tell the stories, and the sounds act them out. Like my blood pumping through my veins.”įrom the first few notes in “Blue,” something chilling and captivating pierces straight into the listener’s chest and carries through the rest of the album. I can’t fully explain how deeply I feel this song inside of me. It felt like something was trying to purge itself out of me. I was in some sort of strange altered state of reality, deep in a grief wave and a relationship death. “I had just gotten back to Australia from New York and the pandemic hit shortly after. Everything in shades of Blue,” says Sparke. It was a freak accident that came out all in one go, the words, it just didn’t stop pouring out. “This is one of the closest songs to my heart I have ever written. The album, a huge and beautiful sweeping work that possesses a rare and reflective power, is due October 7th via Sacred Bones.

Indigo Sparke shares a video for “Blue,” the stunning new single and opening track from her anticipated new Aaron Dessner-produced album, Hysteria.
