Helena Deland releases new dark pop track "Pale"

"Pale" follows on from last month's "Truth Nugget" single, and is accompanied by a visualiser directed by Yoon Rachel Nam.

Deland says of her latest release, ""Pale" is about the little space left to the actual self in romantic relationships where idealisation comes into play." She adds of the video, "The stream in the visualiser represents the question of control when control is ultimately impossible."

Someone New will also include earlier singles "Someone New" and "Lylz".

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."

As well as releasing "Pale" today, Deland has announced a livestream performance on Bandcamp to celebrate the release of her debut album. Deland's set will take place on 19 October at 6pm EST / 11pm BST. Tickets can be bought from Deland's Bandcamp.