Helen Svoboda – Headwater

Helen Svoboda Headwater On Room40, an album in which the gaps between sounds are sometimes as significant as the sounds themselves Headwater by Helen Svoboda For her latest album, Headwater, Helen Svoboda has stripped her work back to the essentials. The Finnish/Australian artist has assembled a minimalist album of double bass musings and vocals, frequently piecing together fragments to build her narrative. Svoboda employs silence in her songs like it’s an instrument. Negative space fills her songs, pausing without awkwardness, and allowing each note to sit with itself as if in contemplation. ‘Child’ is largely a cappella and has gulfs of silence around her vocals. When the low, searing bass comes in, the effect is dramatic. She maximises this stringent aesthetic in ‘Void of Space’. The... The post Helen Svoboda – Headwater appeared first on The Quietus .

Helen Svoboda – Headwater

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