Helena Deland - Someone New (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

A unique transformation occurs the moment a lover lays eyes on your bedroom for the first time: the room is suddenly, involuntarily no longer your own. Your curated “you” is subject to the impressions of the other, and you try hard to adopt this filter yourself, wondering what information the objects and their position suggest about you. If, in moments like these, the new gaze seems to almost conjure the room, a desperate question arises: what remains of the room without the other? With no external sources of appraisal or affirmation, where does the stuff of the self reside, and how does it take shape?

These blood-deep paranoias set the stage for Helena Deland’s debut album, Someone New, an exploration of gender, power, time and the “self” that finds Deland in full control of her sound and style, even as she asks whether control is ever possible. The album was written and recorded over a period of two years, beginning with Deland’s guitar and expanding into a lavish sonic sphere that blends elements of hypnagogic pop and classic folk. Deland’s voice ties it all together, sometimes hushed in a whisper, sometimes shrouded in distortion, and sometimes full and clear – but always inviting the listener into her world.

Someone New is Montreal's Helena Deland's first full length record. It follows her 2018 series of EPs entitled Altogether Unaccompanied, a two-year period during which she toured with Weyes Blood and Connan Mockasin, amongst others, opened for Iggy Pop in Paris and collaborated with Jpeg Mafia.

Tracklist:
1. Someone New (03:50)
2. Truth Nugget (04:41)
3. Dog (03:53)
4. Fruit Pit (03:16)
5. Pale (03:02)
6. Comfort, Edge (03:44)
7. The Walk Home (02:29)
8. Seven Hours (02:24)
9. Smoking at the Gas Station (04:34)
10. Lylz (03:03)
11. Mid Practice (03:58)
12. Clown Neutral (04:42)
13. Fill the Rooms (04:16)


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