Indigo de Souza Launches GoFundMe To Buy Back Unreleased Album From Label

Two years ago, Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina and destroyed a lot of people's homes in and around the city of Asheville. The indie rock singer-songwriter Indigo de Souza's house in Marshall, North Carolina was flooded, and she lost nearly all of her possessions. After that experience, de Souza wrote and recorded a new album. It's finished, ready to be released — fully mixed and mastered, with cover art painted by de Souza's mother. But there's a problem. After requesting to be prematurely released from her deal with Loma Vista Records, de Souza is negotiating to buy the rights to release the album, and she has started a Go FundMe campaign to raise the necessary money.Indigo de Souza started her career with three acclaimed albums on Saddle Creek. Before releasing last year's Precipice, she signed with Loma Vista. (She also released the one-off single "Come To God" on Loma Vista earlier this year.) On her GoFundMe page, de Souza writes that she came to realize that signing her deal was "a mistake":I gave it my absolute all — but over time, I came to realize that the relationship was not aligned with my values. I wasn’t feeling positive growth. Things felt harder — harder...