Helena Deland has announced her second album, Goodnight Summerland, which will be out October 13 via Chivi Chivi. She co-produced this one with Sam Evian at his upstate NY studio, and the album was mastered by Heba Kadry (Bjork, Beach House, Slowdive).
The album includes “Spring Bug,” and the new single is “Bright Green Vibrant Great,” a lush, swooning baroque folk gem. “I wrote ‘Bright Green Vibrant Gray’ shortly after losing my mother,” Deland says. “On the scale of our human lives, we might recognize the watershed moments, but there is no telling how deeply or subtly they affect us. Lyrically, the song is interested in contrasts – the immediacy and acuity of a nascent romance in the context of larger forces such as geological time. I was interested in contextualizing an encounter between two people within nature’s humbling and overwhelming scale, which outlasts and ultimately subsumes any smaller and human-scale experiences within it. In discovering another person, there is a heightened awareness, a life-affirming purposefulness.”
The video was directed by Xavier Beldor and you can watch that below.
Helena will be on her North American headline tour this fall, which has her out with Jana Horn and hits NYC on November 18 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. All dates are listed below.
Goodnight Summerland:
1.Moon Pith
2.Saying Something
3.Spring Bug
4.Bright Green Vibrant Gray
5.Drawbridge
6.Roadflower
7.The Animals
8.Who I Sound Like
9.Swimmer
10.Night Soft As Silk
11.Strawberry Moon
Helena Deland – 2023 Tour Dates
11/02/2023 – Vancouver – Fox Cabaret
11/03/2023 – Seattle – Madame Lou’s
11/04/2023 – Portland – Mississippi Studios
11/06/2023 – San Francisco – Cafe du Nord
11/07/2023 – Los Angeles – Lodge Room
11/08/2023 – San Diego – Casbah
11/09/2023 – Phoenix – Valley Bar
11/11/2023 – Denver – Lost Lake
11/13/2023 – Minneapolis – 7th st
11/14/2023 – Chicago – Lincoln Hall
11/15/2023 – Detroit – El club
11/16/2023 – Toronto – Horseshoe
11/18/2023 – Brooklyn – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/19/2023 – DC – Songbyrd
11/24/2023 – Montréal – La Tulipe
11/25/2023 – Québec – Le Pantoum
02/13/2024 – Baden – One Of A Million Festival
02/14/2024 – Munich – Milla
02/15/2024 – Berlin – Privatclub
02/16/2024 – Amsterdam – Paradiso Upstairs
02/17/2024 – Paris – Pop Up Du Label
02/19/2024 – Brussels – Botanique
02/21/2024 – London – The Lexington