It isn’t precisely typical for artists on the Tiny Desk to share their future burial plans, however that is precisely what Indigo de Souza does midway by way of her efficiency. “I wrote this tune about my love for nature,” the singer-songwriter says, introducing the observe “Not My Physique.” “I believe that after I die … what I would like is to be composted and to turn into soil, and for that soil for use to plant a tree, and I would like that tree to be so huge and robust.”

“I do not know what sort of tree but — nonetheless pondering on it,” she says, with a number of giggles from the viewers. “A tree that folks can go to and be like, ‘That is Indigo!’ Till they die and so they cannot go to me anymore.”

It is lovely, unvarnished sentiments like that — a need to be reborn as an enormous and robust redwood tree — that mark de Souza’s lyricism. The 26-year-old songwriter’s music all the time emits a sure nakedness, as she chronicles the unknowing that always comes from being in your 20s. In a set constructed from 2023’s All of This Will Finish, right here these songs come paired with horns as her hovering vocals transfer seamlessly by way of beats of youthful despair and hope.

SET LIST

“The Water” “All of This Will Finish” “Not My Physique” “Youthful & Dumber”

MUSICIANS

Indigo De Souza: lead vocals, guitar Maddie Shuler: lap metal, piano, backing vocals Avery Sullivan: drums Landon George: upright bass Jacob Bruner: trombone Ben Colvin: tenor sax

TINY DESK TEAM

Producer: Bob Boilen Director: Maia Stern Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel, Estefania Mitre Editor: Sofia Seidel Audio Engineer: Kwesi Lee Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer Photographer: Michael Zamora Tiny Desk Crew: Suraya Mohamed, Kara Body, Hazel Cills  VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann