Taken from her forthcoming album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, Skullcrusher‘s new single, “March”, feels like smoke moving through your fingers or memories fading as you lift from the embrace of sleep. Piano notes drift in from distant seclusion, left to ebb in an endless sea of glistening ambience and blushing electronics. It’s ghostly, a vision of intense reflection that allows sonic architect Helen Ballentine the room she needs to draw out and expose these austere musical catharses. It’s so easy to succumb to its gauzy transcendence without understanding the nature of the gravities which shape its internal contours. She isn’t interested in answers here, just impermanent impressions and moments of fleeting confession.
“‘March’ is like a confession,” shares Ballentine. “It felt like surrendering myself to the things I’ve lost, the things I don’t understand, the confrontation of life & responsibility. While I reflect on things, familiar situations take different forms. I make a friend cry as I play them my song, I make them cry because I said something hurtful. There is beauty and terror in the unknown.”
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And Your Song is Like a Circle is due out October 17 on Dirty Hit. You can pre-order the album here. Follow Skullcrusher on Facebook, X, and Instagram.
