Music

Slippery

My next single Slippery is coming out Friday 5/28!

Where Did I Go Wrong?

This song was inspired by Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, 2000s emo rock, and anime. It opens with spacey, reverberating acoustic guitars, and slowly builds into grungy hard rock, and features a blistering guitar solo.

The lyrics focus on a fall from grace and the shame that accompanies it. Here, Indigo Mane’s tendency towards dark lyrics and his penchant for writing eclectic, R&B flavored rock music are perfectly married together. The somber lyrics fit perfectly on top of the spacey, jazzy chord extensions. The sheer power and anger of the chorus is tempered by Indigo’s rhythmic and dark vocal inflections during the softer verses. He directly attributes much of this to improvisation during recording, and believes that he was heavily influenced by the vocal style of Michael Jackson.

Immortals

One of the first songs Indigo Mane ever wrote. At first glance, this song is fairly typical modern rock. It features sleek production, multi-tracked vocals and guitars (and a lot of them), some hot blues licks, and an anthemic chorus. However, Indigo Mane’s more outside-the-box influences shine through in subtle ways that separate the song from from its peers in the genre. Guitar ad-libs drenched in reverb and delay swell in and out in a comparable style to guitar legends Tom Morello and The Edge. Furthermore, many of the melodic choices both vocally and instrumentally are far more sweet and melancholy typical in a hard-hitting rock tune. All of these quirks contribute the comparably dark lyrical themes of mortality, the erosion of a dear friendship, and suicide.