Indigo SparkeBest Indigo Sparke Albums Ranked

Echo

pitchfork

7.6

“Co-produced by Adrianne Lenker, the Australian songwriter’s debut is a dark little star of intimacy and intensity. The atmosphere is rapt, the silences charged.”

Hysteria

pitchfork

7.4

“The Australian folk artist’s second album is glossier and broader than its predecessor, but the most stunning moments are still ones of hushed reverence.”

Hysteria

loudandquiet

7.0

“It’s only been 18 months since Indigo Sparke released her enthralling debut, Echo.  In between its release and the recording of her equally engaging second offering Hysteria, the Australian songwriter was enveloped by a period of stifling darkness. Coming to terms with a separation and general chaos of the world, she describes a time characterised by “huge waves of grief”, days where she “couldn’t”

Hysteria

pastemagazine

7.0

“Love gets compared to bodies of water over and over again. There are plenty of high-school-English-class ways you could interpret this symbolism, but one thing’s for sure: The ocean of love is infinitely vast, taking many forms, and Indigo Sparke knows this well. On her latest album, Hysteria, released via Sacred Bones and produced by Aaron Dessner of The National, nowhere is this titular emotion ”

Echo

thelineofbestfit

7.0

“Flourished with her influences, Indigo Sparke's debut vividly captures landscapes”

Echo

loudandquiet

6.0

“Although it’s by no means all you need to know about Indigo Sparke, a good place to start is that she’s the protege of Adrianne Lenker from Big Thief. As expected, this means her debut album is full of reverb-drenched lonesome melancholic balladry, songs about solitary women smoking while walking down desert(ed) highways, plenty of spectral fuzz from simple electric guitar strums, and acres of emp”