But there were days where I just couldn’t get off the floor. The grief opened a doorway to the past I thought I had made peace with. “I was moving through huge waves of grief and trying to reconcile what was going on, internally and externally.
“I was going through an intense separation and processing all of that in the deep flux of the world collapsing,” she recalls. Echo was being prepared for release, but Sparke was already experiencing a flow of creative thought as a result of shifts in her own life. Work on the record began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic while Sparke was stranded in quarantine in her native Australia waiting for her visa to be renewed so she could return to the States. Here though, Sparke offers an expansive body of work-it’s a simultaneously nostalgic yet clear and complex collection that expands her sound and outlook. ‘Hysteria’ arrives just a year after her striking, minimalist debut, Echo. With harmonies reminiscent of the voices in our heads, she examines love, loss, grief, a newly realized rage, her history, dreams, and the emotional weather patterns surrounding those sensations: her words tell the stories, and the sounds act them out. From the first few notes, in the first song, Blue, something chilling and captivating pierces straight into the listener’s chest. In the tidal throes of life at its fullest and most intense is the space where grace and strength is fortified and cultivated, is what I am learning” Indigo Sparke ruminates on her magnetic second full-length album Hysteria, a huge and beautiful sweeping work, one that possesses a rare, reflective power.
“To be at the edge, at the precipice of anything, requires deep surrender.
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