Indigo

Indigo is the ninth Studio album by American Singer Lynne Parr, released on January 11, 2011 it sees Lynne take a noticeable departure from her pop/R&B sound to a more alternative and experimental sound with Lynne writing most of the songs alone, and producing half of the songs on the album by herself. In addition, the number of collaborations on this album is noticeably much smaller, Lynne only works with 4 different people. Nellee Hooper , Melissa Evans , Darkchild and RZA. The Eclectic and euphoric production on Lynne’s previous album Aerodynamic is nowhere to be seen. In its place is a variety of different styles and sounds inspired by underground indie music from the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s including Alternative R&B , Glitch , Downtempo , Trip Hop , IDM , Witch House , Punk Rock , No Wave , Grunge , Indie Pop , Electronica , Alternative Rock , Lowercase , Baroque Pop , Ambient and Electropop

## Background

Lynne had made a massive comeback onto the music scene in 2008 with Aerodynamic, the House and Electronic influences. it had 3 number one singles in the US, sold over 5 million copies by 2010 and in 2010 she won a Grammy Award for best Rap/Sung collaboration. she embarked on a massive 18 Month long World Tour. she was touring around with long periods on planes and busses. she got bored and bought a new MacBook to mess around with. she discovered a program called Garageband. a music making studio, and she began putting songs together. by the end of the tour lynne had over 3 dozen completed demos. they ranged in sound and genre. lynne citing an attempt to use all the different styles available. around 2009, Lynne was asked to do the main theme for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. and contacted Nelee Hooper to do a collaboration on the song, meeting him in London. they talked for a few hours and she mentioned her songs on her Mac book and he asked to see them. the one he took a particular was a simple instrumental based around a Trip Hop styled beat. in a matter of 10 minutes they made a rough draft of Seconds. They spend the remainder of the weekend working on the song, Lynne had to leave as she was on tour and Nelee finished the song and sent it to her, when she heard it for the first time she heard it and then showed a snippet of it at the show she performed at that night. as her tour concluded lynne initially relocated to Mexico City in the spring and put together several song with longtime collaborator Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins but returned to her home in May right before she gave birth to her son. initially she turned in this to be her album. With an initial release date of September 14, 2010. but in a mass data leak on July 19, 2010 several songs from Indigo were leaked. initially, Lynne pushed to move the release date ahead by a month. but her record company disagreed. citing the mixxed reception of the songs that were leaked. after nearly a month of negotiations while the album was suspended from a release and lynne begrudgingly agreed to this. she and her close friend Melissa Evans wrote over a dozen new songs, and reworked and remixed several pre-existing songs and submitted it for a release on November 23, but after the new single Play With Fire failed to be the big single Epic records was hoping for and delayed the album again with more negotiations. Lynne finally won out and the album was finally Released on January 11, 2011