Helena Deland previews debut album with third single "Truth Nugget"

"Truth Nugget" lands after previous singles "Someone New" and "Lylz".

Deland says of her latest outing, ""Truth Nugget" is about the distance that exists even between the closest people and how friendship involves nurturing the other's solitude. It also touches upon how I experience my guardedness as being part of how I perform my gender."

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."