If we had a chance to pen a love letter to our inner child, what would we write? For Indigo De Souza, the North Carolina songwriter who broke out with 2021 album Any Shape You Take, that message arrives today (February 8) in the shape of “Younger & Dumber,” a lush new cinematic ballad with a slight country twang that begins a new chapter for the artist. De Souza is set to release new album All of This Will End on April 28 via Saddle Creek, highlighting an active year that includes festival dates, an appearance at SXSW, and a tour supporting Sylvan Esso.
The video for “Younger & Dumber” also surfaces today, directed and conceptualized by De Souza and featuring clothing designed and constructed by herself and her mother, Kimberly Oberhammer. Watch it below.
“‘Younger and Dumber’ is a flood beam of my emotional and spiritual human experience,” De Souza says. “My growing up defeated by a world brutally littered with trash, violence and grief, and somehow finding beauty, purpose, and boundless love existing in the same place. This song felt really emotionally intense for me when I wrote it. I was sitting in my house and it kind of flowed right to me as if it had already been written by some other force. A lot of the lyrics are a nod to the idea that your experiences make you who you are. I endured some heavy darkness and dysfunction when I was a teenager. But if I hadn’t been through those things, I wouldn’t be who I am now.”
She adds: “When you’re young, you don’t know any better, but you learn from your experiences, and then you become somebody who’s been alive and learning. It’s also about how heartbreaking that is; to start as a child with vivid curiosity, innocent imagination and joy, and for the world to end up being kind of brutal to be a part of. This song is a love letter to everyone’s inner child. No one can prepare us for how insane it is to be alive. How many times we will have to rise from the ashes and what courage it will take.”
Scan through all of De Souza’s tour dates after the video jump.
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Indigo De Souza Tour Dates:
March 1: Savannah, GA @ Lodge of Sorrows
March 3: Okeechobee, FL @ Okeechobee Festival
March 11: Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
March 12: New Orleans, LA @ Toulouse Theatre
March 14 to 17: Austin, TX @ SXSW
March 18: Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips (Southside Spillover)
March 19: Houston, TX @ Secret Group
May 13: Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
May 17: Madison, WI @ The Majestic
May 18: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
May 19: Detroit, MI @ El Club
May 20: Toronto, ON @ Opera House
May 22: Boston, MA @ The Royale
May 23: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
May 24: New York City, NY @ Webster Hall
May 26: Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom
May 30: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 31: Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
June 2: Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
June 3: Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
August 14: Indianapolis, IN @ TCU Amphitheater at West River State Park *
August 15: Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! *
August 17: St Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
August 18: Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland *
August 19: Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *
August 24: Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield *
August 25: Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
August 27: Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
August 30: Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley *
August 31: Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *
September 1: Del Mar, CA @ The Sound *
September 6: Las Vegas, NV @ Brookly Bowl *
September 8: Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren *
September 9: Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Opera *
September 10: Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
* supporting Sylvan Esso