‘Blue Chandelier’ is not your average record. The bedroom pop project from Oxford based multi-dimensional artist Indini is wildly experimental and innovative. Her fifth record, ‘Blue Chandelier’ stands at thirteen tracks in length that’s innately a bit weird and offbeat. A self-described and aptly themed night time record, Inidini’s latest work feels so appropriate for a wistful night when you’re feeling a slight bit hazy and disoriented.
Starting the record with the seemingly haywire and altogether confused energy of ‘Raag Pahala’, Indini reels you into her world through a mazy soundscape that entirely has you feeling wholly confused and altogether left feeling almost hallucinatory. The vocals feel luscious and warm, reassuring and kind throughout. But the production feels almost counter-intuitive in points, somehow feeling strangely tense and absurdist. That opposition between the flourishing vocal work and the otherwise wildly innovative vocals creates a tension that’s bound to have you wholly intrigued.
On ‘The Sweetest Fruit In The Tree’ you’re treated to the full gamut of what Indini’s style can be like. It’s a strangely calming and blissful track, but the varied and tribal percussive work has you left slightly energised and awakened. The record’s closing piece, ‘The Boy Who Was Queen’ is one of the most strangely psychedelic and hypnotic songs. The strangeness of all of the soundscapes, perhaps at no point more glaringly intriguing and adorable as ‘The Sweetest Fruit In The Tree’ is a highlight that makes Indini’s style so truly her own.