Helena Deland announces debut album with title-track "Someone New"

"Someone New" is the second track to be shared from Deland's debut album, after last month's "Lylz".

Deland says of her new release, ""Someone New" is about the validation and relief from one's internal world that a romantic encounter can offer, but also about becoming aware that there seems to be an expiry date on that type of opportunity for women. It ambivalently celebrates and condemns the idea of being in one’s 'prime', as it is so rare that youth and self-understanding are simultaneous."

Her forthcoming album will follow on from Deland's Altogether Unaccompanied EP series released in 2018.

She says of her debut LP, "Someone New is about paradoxically feeling sick of and unfamiliar with myself. I realised that I associated primarily with what others (real or imagined) projected onto me, and acted in ways to avoid disappointing this projection or imagined expectation. The quest to please and conform distracted me from who I already was and I laboured to comply to a normative set of expectations. I noticed my troubled relationship with my body, which escaped my control and gave others so much information it seemed to withhold from me. I sought comfort in romantic relationships, which validated me and where I was free to at least momentarily reinvent myself for the other's sake."

Deland continues, "I felt guilty of my privilege, the idea of which my dejection didn't sit well with, and I was trapped in patterns that grew more and more familiar. I longed to become someone new! I had to look at this critically in order to write songs I thought made the least bit of sense, trying not to give into the tendency to bend myself to integrated expectations and my anxiety to please. The meta delight in this whole story is that the process helped me better recognise what defines me both outwardly and inwardly, and made me somewhat new to myself."

Tracklist:

1. Someone New
2. Truth Nugget
3. Dog
4. Fruit Pit
5. Pale
6. Comfort, Edge
7. The Walk Home
8. Seven Hours
9. Smoking at the Gas Station
10. Lylz
11. Mid Practice
12. Clown Neutral
13. Fill the Rooms