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- Summary: The debut full-length release for Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine as Skullcrusher was recorded by producer Andrew Sarlo.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Oct 17, 2022Skullcrusher’s first album may not present a doormat saying ‘welcome’ in bold letters, but it presents one of the most rewarding sonic experiences of the year for those willing to open its undefined doors.
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Oct 14, 2022Ballentine has shed the veil of her peers’ convention here entirely, creating something quietly uncompromising, unflinchingly strange, and otherworldly. It’s beautiful, moving, and utterly beguiling.
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Oct 13, 2022Quiet The Room is the perfect introduction to Helen Ballentine’s hazy, dreamy world – a world you’ll want to spend an awful lot of time in once you experience it.
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Oct 17, 2022Quiet the Room is a worthy addition comparable to Julianna Barwick's The Magic Place and The Innocence Mission's We Walked in Song, chamber folk reveries so entrenched in their own little worlds you can practically live inside them.
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Oct 18, 2022As fleeting an experience as this is, it’s still emotionally moving and deeply affecting. Within its ambition, and for those who are open to its fainting beauty, it contains entire worlds.
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Oct 20, 2022Ballentine’s strengths are most apparent in the feel of this album, which is consistently rich and gauzy. Even the clearest acoustic guitar licks are somehow buried beneath a persistent field of sustain and mild distortion.
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Oct 13, 2022While some of the record's lyrics are lost in ambiance, Ballentine's ethereal vocals are a key component of an artful sound design that, like a movie, is optimized in its full-length context.
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Oct 26, 2022
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