Name: Quiet the Room
Brand: Skullcrusher

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SC410lp-C1

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Colour

White

Colour details

Cloudy White Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

656605041032

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / White

SC410lp

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Black

Extended format: No

656605041018

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1 / Black / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SC410cd

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656605041025

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Skullcrusher

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Secretly Canadian

Skullcrusher is the alias of Helen Ballentine, a talented songwriter based in Los Angeles. With her unique blend of folk and indie rock, Skullcrusher captivates audiences with her hauntingly beautiful melodies and introspective lyrics. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and emotions, she creates music that resonates deeply with listeners. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other artists, Skullcrusher's distinctive sound leaves a lasting impression. Discover the enchanting world of Skullcrusher and immerse yourself in her captivating musical journey.

Helen Ballentine’s spellbinding first full-length album Quiet the Room is the sound of a window opening, a barrier dissolving. Across these fourteen tracks, the outside world seeps in and the inside world crawls out. The result is a stunning and quietly moving work that reflects the journeys we take through the physical and spiritual realms of ourselves in order to show up for the world. While writing the album in the summer of 2021, Ballentine drew inspiration from her childhood home in Mount Vernon, NY. What she set out to capture on Quiet the Room was not the innocence of childhood, as it is so often portrayed, but the intense complexity of it. Past and present merge Escher-like in this dreamlike space laced with elements of fantasy, magic, and mystery. Musically, this translates into a sound that feels somehow weighty and ephemeral all at once, like a time lapse of copper corroding. To capture the effortless blend of electronic, ambient, folk, and rock, Ballentine and her collaborator Noah Weinman brought in producer Andrew Sarlo to record at Chicken Shack studio in Upstate New York, close to where Ballentine grew up. “We wanted every song to have that little twinkle, but also a sense of crumbling,” she says. These songs thrum with moments of anxiety that boil over into moments of peace, as on lead single “Whatever Fits Together,” which chugs to a ragged start before the gears catch and ease. On “It’s Like a Secret,” Ballentine struggles to connect and let people in, recognizing that no one can ever fully know our inner worlds and that to understand each other is to cross a barrier and leave a part of ourselves behind. And yet, on closing track “You are my House,” she finds a way to reach out. “You are the walls and floors of my room,” she sings in perfect, hopeful harmony.

Quiet the Room

Music US