Indiana announces ‘No Romeo’ tour

DHP Family are delighted to announce a national headline tour for Indiana!

To celebrate the release of debut album ‘No Romeo’, Indiana will embark on an 8 date tour of the UK, showcasing her emotionally charged vocals and story-telling lyrics that are truly carving her niche.

The album is testament to her stance against formulaic love songs. “The title is a pseudonym I give myself” she explains. “These may appear to be love songs but look closer, chip away their exterior beauty and reveal an inner darkness. I am No Romeo.”

Within this conceptual identity, she writes compelling narrative journeys into a wealth of different psyches. ‘Never Born’ opens with a juddering bass synth, as Indiana’s spectral vocals fly through her range, before it all erupts with a rapturous electric guitar hook. At the opposite end of the scale, ‘Jack’ is minimal and percussive, devised with help from Joel Little of Lorde fame to create a forward-thinking r&b/pop soundscape that perfectly accentuates Indiana’s narrative. ‘No Romeo’ includes work with producers like Little, John Beck, Two Inch Punch and Jess Shatkin but this is very much an Indiana sound. ‘Solo Dancing’ blends dark disco and Italo synths to create a John Carpenter-meets-Robyn paracusia.

For every track, there is a video; a cinematic episode that, to Indiana, is as important as the songs themselves. Recently, she released the video for ‘Heart on Fire’, a desert town scene entrenched in hidden messages regarding masculinity and femininity. She writes, directs and stars in many of these visuals, using a handpicked crew of her own. When I’m writing songs, I’m thinking about the videos,” she reveals. “A pop video dictates that it should be the girl you see on stage, plonked into the video. But my songs are stories, so I want to immerse myself into the role of that person. In ‘Mess Around’, I’m an ice queen. I look different in each one.”

Her music is testament to a flourishing new front for pop music. There is a growing rejection of the excessive electro hooks, novelty gimmicks and hyper-sexualisation that have become the pillars of mainstream pop. This rebuff favours a more minimal and musical approach. Indiana thrives on removing the over-synthesised fanfare of commercial pop, and reducing it to the most subtle and precious elements. This is pure, intellectual and cinematic pop music, with a clear aim and a deft execution.

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Debut album “No Romeo” out September 1st

“Heart On Fire” single out August 24th

No Romeo Tour:

Thursday October 30th – Glasgow King Tuts

Friday October 31st – Sheffield Plug

Saturday November 1st – Birmingham Temple

Sunday November 2nd – Manchester Deaf Institute

Tuesday November 4th – London XOYO

Wednesday November 5th – Bristol Thekla

Thursday November 6th – Brighton The Haunt

Friday November 7th – Nottingham The Rescue Rooms

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