“I'm the biggest fucking Knicks fan in this life," says Indy Yelich. Truly, I don't shut up about it. For me, honestly I swear to God, The Knicks are literally this album.”⁠ ⁠ Indy talks about The Knicks with the fervor of a New Yorker, but the city is a world away from her roots in New Zealand. The 26-year-old singer and songwriter spent her childhood writing poetry and music, encouraged by her mother, award-winning poet Sonja Yelich. After high school, as she bounced between Los Angeles and New York, she released her first poetry collection, Sticky Notes, in 2018, followed by her second, Dudette, in 2022.⁠ ⁠ “I'm attracted to bars and people and things that aren’t the norm because my life is not necessarily the norm,” Indy says. She’s hinting at not only the unique experience of being a young artist, but also the connection at the core of her new song “Idol” — her relationship with her older sister Lorde.⁠ ⁠ Ahead of the arrival of Fame is a Bedroom, a project that grapples with the ...