The cheerful and always smiling Mārtiņš Vater rock group “Indygo” already has a substantial beard, that is, it has existed for many years (more than 20 to be precise), and each of its new studio albums is awaited and welcomed with interest, but also with a little concern – what will it be, Latvian or English, what style will dominate this time, what will Vaters & Co. have thought up again, good or bad? “Saturated with music and emotion, just a damn good rock album! We are pleased with what we have done!” after the release of “6”, the modern rock trio “Indygo” or Mārtiņš Vaters, Miks Riekstiņš and Mārtiņš Leja express their damn good feelings in a damned laconic way.
The previous “Indygo” album “The Result Of Everything” was released in 2019, and it was entirely in English, while its predecessor, “Stars”, released in 2015, was in Latvian. “Decoy” released in 2013 – ostensibly in English, but it also included the group’s probably biggest hit of all time “Minutes and Hours”. The new album was created during the last couple of years, collecting the songs made during the rehearsals and sifting out the ones that are suitable for this work – this time again in Latvian. The recordings were made with three very influential men in the sound industry – Ęirts Laumans (“Hodila Records”), Valērijas Černejs (“No Fuss Audio”) and Gats Zakis himself (“TRU Music”), and the latter added the final touch to create the overall sound. A total of 13 songs – this is not some trendy EP or mini-album!
It must be admitted that the very first new piece released for wider circulation (collaboration with Žigat and Dvarion in the song “But you hurry” does not count) “Skats pa logo” thoroughly scared us – we don’t need “Indygo” so melodically “milky”! Fortunately, there are also songs in more playful and rockier tones, but there are also compositions with which Vaters approaches the song survey “Muzikalā banka”… The song “Idiots” can definitely claim the “Indygo” gold fund, also with the proper ” grooves” endowed with “Pazudusi sidrs” and grandiose “Doorbell”, “Kā man jādoma?” will sound good at concerts, however, the average score of the new album is the more radio station-friendly direction of “Skats pa logo”. Unfortunately.
Of course, everything is played and sung with high quality – “Indygo” has always been able to guarantee that, the songs are melodic and maybe even more understandable for a wider audience than the old “Indygo” works, therefore this album can also be called a step forward, but the group’s biggest trump card is (was?) exactly the most “underground” untamed sound. Some friends – connoisseurs of wind instruments – also took part in the recording of the album
Ritvars Šilkovs and Maksims Starodubovs (“Orange Holidays”, “Rīta Stienis”, “Riga Reggae”), string sector specialist Undīne Cercina, as well as Māris Žigats (“Adventures of the Milkman”) and Artis Dvarionas or Lapsene (“RAP”) who do not require comments , who lent their voices to Vater in the song “But you hurry”. “Musically, the album is very colorful, which electrically lifts your fingertips and makes you sit down deeper on the sofa or in the seaside dunes and, observing the various movements of the vast waters of the sea, find something very personal and lasting in this music,” he philosophizes figuratively (and fabulously) ” Indygo”.
Taking into account the fact that “6” is a rather dubious album from the point of view of a passionate rock music fan, it remains only to test it “live”, because there is no doubt that this trio will present it incomparably more excitingly in concerts. And the main thing – if the previous album was released to the public with a well-attended event in the Spīķeru concert hall, then this time “Indygo” have planned an even more ambitious presentation concert – it will take place on April 19 in the prestigious “Palladium”. There will be no CDs and LPs, “6” will be released only in the digital environment, however, the men of “Indygo” promise to supply the group’s attributes. Well, nothing, let’s pull T-shirts on punches and listen to the “six” digitally!
2024-02-06 18:31:18
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