Become You

Performer: Indigo Girls
Engineer: Glenn Matullo
Producer: Peter Collins
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Indigo Girls: Emily Saliers (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, bouzouki, mandolin); Amy Ray (vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica); Carol Isaacs (penny whistle, recorder, accordion, piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ, percussion); Clare Kenny (acoustic & electric basses); Brady Blade (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Michelle Malone (vocals, harmonica); Dan Higgins (saxophone). Recorded at Tree Sound Studios, Norcross, Georgia. This is a multi-channel Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. Indigo Girls: Emily Saliers (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, bouzouki, mandolin); Amy Ray (vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica); Carol Isaacs (penny whistle, recorder, accordion, piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ, percussion); Clare Kenny (acoustic & electric basses); Brady Blade (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Michelle Malone (vocals, harmonica); Dan Higgins (saxophone). Recorded at Tree Sound Studios, Norcross, Georgia. From their earliest heralded albums in the late '80s, the Indigo Girls have suffused their music with a certain consistency of straightforward yet subtly intricate folk-pop melodies. Also ever present on their records is a quietly brilliant method of storytelling, hooking listeners in with tales of love and loss. With SHAMING OF THE SUN and COME ON NOW SOCIAL, politics took a seat nearer the front, though not at the expense of emotion. BECOME YOU, Indigo Girls' eighth album, finds the duo running confidently all over the map. "Moment Of Forgiveness" is a simple Bonnie Raitt-ish blues-pop ditty, directly followed by the mournful piano meanderings of "Deconstruction." Things kick into high gear on the rousing title track, which expertly fuses the band's political and personal sides while Amy Ray comes to terms with her Southern roots. Emily Saliers follows with "You've Got to Show," a moody and verdant jazzy song of new love. Things move on in similarly eclectic fashion from there, making for a solid and diverse record.

Q (3/02, p.122) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...They are experts at wrapping worldly-wise observations in a package of sweet vocal harmonies and folksy strumming, throwing in the odd harmonica-strewn thigh-slapper to vary tempo..."

Since the late-1980s, the Athens, Georgia, duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, collectively the Indigo Girls, have been creating gentle, yet furious harmonies, gloriously un-fragile folk crafted with an uncompromising DIY aesthetic. In 1989, MTV caught wind of the pair and, while the outlet's sensationalist nature harped on the lesbian angle, the station also pushed the single "Closer to Fine" onto the pop charts. The fanbase remained, even after any wisp of novelty faded, and the 1990s saw the Indigo Girls release a constant stream of critically praised records, highlighted by RITES OF PASSAGE and SWAMP OPHELIA.

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