Montreal singer-songwriter Helena Deland has released her newest single “Bright Green Vibrant Gray.” Inferred by the title, the song portrays contrasting sides of the same coin. With the song, Deland attempts to explore the concept of naturalism. However, the song can be said to be about those who find a new love in their life, losing a parent, or thinking of human existence as something geological.
According to Under the Radar Mag, in a press release, Deland wrote the song “thinking of a trip I took to a town on the St. Lawrence River, in Charlevoix, Quebec, where the rolling hills and dramatic cliffs were shaped by a meteorite striking the region over 400 million years ago. Upon impact, its geology changed forever, and since then, erosion has slowly done its work.”
She also says that she wrote the song after her mother had died. “On the scale of our human lives, we might recognize the watershed moments, but there is no telling how deeply or subtly they affect us,” she remarks. “I was interested in contextualizing an encounter between two people within nature’s humbling and overwhelming scale, which outlasts and ultimately subsumes any smaller and human-scale experiences within it. In discovering another person, there is a heightened awareness, a life-affirming purposefulness. It is akin to creative inspiration; the painter in the video whose work holds such power and immediate force to her ultimately wonders where her work will end up after she’s gone.”
Goodnight Summerland
The song precedes the release of her new album, Goodnight Summerland, which comes out on October 13th. It will include some of her other recent hits such as “Spring Bug,” “Swimmer,” and much more. It will be the singer’s first solo album since her debut solo album Someone New, which dropped back in 2020. The debut album ended up in the 30th spot of Under the Radar Mag’s Top 100 Albums of 2020 list.
The singer is also preparing for a headline tour later this fall. The Goodnight Tour will be starting in November. It seems 2023 has been a busy year for Deland, as she’s released collaborations with Ouri and Clair Rousay. Thrilled to release a new album and head out on tour, she’s starting another era in her music. Helena Deland is giving her fans something to look forward to when she hits the stage starting on November 18th.
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