When Mount St. Helen burst onto the scene with their debut Pariahs in 2023, it was a real second of pleasure. Two years later, we now have the second launch, and the sensation is equally euphoric.
Introducing Mount St. Helen
Mount St Helen is the alias of Oxford-based multi-instrumentalist Aris Sabetai, who’s joined within the reside setting by Francesco Reni (Guitar), Joe Smith (Bass) and Ryan Taylor-Costin (Drums).
Sabetai started Mount St. Helen throughout Lockdown, mixing his love of 90s guitar music with ethereal strings and pop sensibilities. His music attracts on a variety of influences together with indie cinema, animation, poetry, tradition, faith and even a concern of flying.
The music centres round themes of nostalgia, faithlessness and loser-dom. The stark black and white aesthetic of Mount St. Helen helps make them really feel vital from the outset and completely matches the music, which completely balances introversion with optimism and hope.
New Single ‘Helpless’
The brand new single ‘Helpless’ introduces a delicate shift in sound. They usually say music is a product of its atmosphere, and on this case, the inspiration is drawn from the Oxford sound of early 90s Shoegaze bands like Journey and Chapterhouse.
This sits in distinction to their debut Pariahs, which comfortably lived in an area of euphoric indie rock, with delicate nods to Coldplay in its use of strings.
Helpless is described as a meditation on ecstasy within the face of peril. Lyrically, it imagines what increased powers would possibly suppose as they witness the chaos we create with world warming, spiritual battle, and limitless division.
But you would possibly suppose that might sound bleak, the Shoegaze textures envelop the monitor with a comfortable blanket of uplifting hope.
It’s a track about trying down however feeling up, dancing within the storm, seizing the day. The ultimate part, impressed by antiphonal choral music, reconciles our forsakenness with an uplift of sound that goals to take off and turn into airborne. Helpless is thus finally a testomony to life and the dwelling.
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Phrases Mark Knight
