Linda’s Head: Vinyl LP

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Label: Kranky
Release Date: 2nd October

Liz Harris aka Grouper is back fronting Helen over a decade after their modern dream pop classic 'The Original Faces'. They do the sound to perfection as it manages to sound like you're in the fuzzy confusion of your mind as it creates collages of sweet 60s pop hooks but with the reverbed haze of shoegaze and sense of melancholic 80s indie. Could be the best in it's field this year. 

Linda’s Head is the first new album in over a decade by the Pacific Northwest trio of Liz Harris (guitar, vocals), Scott Simmons (bass), and Jed Bindeman (drums) .

Like its predecessor, 2015’s The Original Faces, the album maps a uniquely intimate and potent vision of bedroom dream pop. Theirs is a shoegaze of half-light and silhouettes, attuned to the shadowplay of melody, melancholy, and undertow.

The record’s title is a refraction of meanings: a head in the clouds, a severance, a fictitious landform jutting into the sea. The music is similarly layered, both yearning and weathered, its edges blurred by years in the wild. Lyrics of waves, storms, and escape further shade the songs in subcurrents of desperation and beauty, tinged in the palette of the New Zealand pop underground. But at its core Helen’s chemistry is one of warmth and release, powered by the kinship of old friends in dark times.