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Skullcrusher announces debut album, Quiet The Room

By | Published on Thursday 21 July 2022

Skullcrusher

Incongruously named singer-songwriter Skullcrusher has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Quiet The Room’, this autumn. Out now is new single ‘Whatever Fits Together’.

“I wrote ‘Whatever Fits Together’ while reflecting on my past and wondering how I might begin to explain it to someone”, says Skullcrusher, real name Helen Ballentine. “I viewed my younger self through a wash of emotions: anger, sadness, pity, confusion, all reaching for a kind of compassion”.

“I tried to capture the contradictions that comprise my past and define who I am now”, she goes on. “As I looked back, I saw my life in pieces: some moments blacked out, some extremely vivid, some leading nowhere. Through the song I attempt to piece it together in some non-linear form and accept my disparate story”.

“The video for ‘Whatever Fits Together’ is a nightmare of phantasmagoria, taking inspiration from ‘The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari’ and one of my favourite silent films, ‘Shoes’”, she adds. “We felt this song needed a darker atmosphere in order to shed light on its essential message: to address the monsters that exist in the shadows. Aiming to keep it simple, we created a black void and Angela Ricciardi filmed on black and white super eight. In the end, it became a series of confrontations”.

Watch that very video right here:



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