Skullcrusher will release her new album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, on October 17th via Dirty Hit Records. Today, the project of Helen Ballentine has shared the album’s second single and opening track, “March/”

“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.”

And Your Song is Like a Circle was recorded over a period of years following the release of her 2022 debut, Quiet the Room, this album is inspired by the sounds of “folk and crystalline electronics, landing somewhere in the snowfields shared by Grouper and Julia Holter.

While making the album, Ballentine focused deeply on the evaporative nature of creative work: the way ideas can appear and dissipate, leaving only faint traces behind, the way a voice courses through a fragile point in time, the way meaning can flicker and falter between people trying their best to understand each other. She recorded at home and in friends’ studios, working alongside Aaron Paul O’Brien in Los Angeles and co-producer Isaac Eiger (Lauren Balthrop, Cassandra Jenkins) in New York.

Ballentine began writing Circle after leaving Los Angeles, a city she’d called home for nearly a decade. She ended up returning upstate to New York’s Hudson Valley, where she was born and raised. Several years of intense isolation followed, and Ballentine immersed herself in films, books, and art that reflected the rupture of relocating cross-country.

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And Your Song is Like a Circle Album Art
Dirty Hit Records
Tracklist:

01 March
02 Dragon
03 Living
04 Maelstrom
05 Changes
06 Periphery
07 Red Car
08 Exhale
09 Vessel
10 The Emptying

Pre-order And Your Song is Like a Circle Album Art by Skullcrusher HERE