indyana has accomplished incredible things since her musical debut. A childhood spent in orchestras, she found herself breaking free from the world of classical, but allowing it to influence her own writing. Supporting fellow up and comers and finding tastemaker attention, she’s undoubtedly an artist on the rise.
With power in her vocals from the first moments to the final celestial cries far in the distance, indyana’s debut album the navy bay is explorative and unambiguous. Though she creates mystical soundscapes and leaves many storylines up to interpretation, the artist behind the music has a knowledge, understanding and purpose that breaks through the vague and the doubting.
A unique songwriting style allows her to leave genre behind, accepting different techniques as emotional tools instead of restrictive rules to write behind. ‘ipomoea dust’ is gently orchestral and fit for the movie screen, ‘chalky children’s crunchy keys are reminiscent of lo-fi production, and the final kicks of ‘the navy baby / hope’ fall as a momentous house track.
Thematically, the album explores what happens at the end of our lives, and how we can find value in something so finite. indyana shares, “I, and many people in my life, struggle to accept the inevitability of death due to the fact that life itself feels so vivid and everlasting. How could it simply end? Just like that? There have been days where I let my fear tip me over into a state of deep, terrible panic. Contrasting this, there have also been days during which I decided to courageously exist in spite of my mortality because… why would I choose suffering when I could choose joy?
Despite humankind’s inability to fully grasp the concept of death, we must audaciously embrace it at one point or another. And, even as I continue to flicker between a state of peace and fear, creating ‘the navy baby’ was like creating a coping mechanism in order to help me reach my end goal, which is to be accepting of every phase of life, transforming fearlessly from one form to the next.”
With a debut album under her belt and a place cemented, indyana’s flourishing career could just be getting started. With boundless talent and a complete creative vision, the navy baby pursues something larger than an album alone, a infinitely layered concept and a ineffable representation of human emotion.