Skullcrusher releases new single “Dragon.” The song is off the artist’s forthcoming album And Your Song is Like a Circle, available October 17th via Dirty Hit Records (beabadoobie). Skullcrusher will play an intimate show at New York’s Night Club 101 on Oct 6th.

Circle does not capture experience gestures toward the imprint of an experience that is uncapturable. Swaying between elegant folk and crystalline electronics, landing somewhere in the snowfields shared by Grouper and Julia Holter, Circle probes the ways that grief turns itself inside out. Loss itself becomes as real and substantial as what’s been lost.

Ballentine explains she wrote the song “while thinking about dissociation and how it can feel to be brought back to the ground from this state. Like in ‘Spirited Away’ when Chihiro begins to disappear in the spirit world she touches Haku’s hand, which pulls her back but then she can’t move her legs. It is a heavy thing to feel the weight of living and pull yourself back to earth. I was interested in the idea of this being a heavy burden but also a necessary aspect of living. It is hopeful but scary as well. Similar to the way armor is a protection but also a burden, either physically or mentally. It’s difficult to protect yourself.”

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 and its dissociative aftershocks.

Skullcrusher
And Your Song is Like a Circle
Tracklist
Dirty Hit Records

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 by skullcrusher HERE