"Tommy can't stay here"
Camp Saint Helene's eerily spectral track Protector begins with haunting winds and trancy bending guitar notes. Liza Ibarra's evocative vocals (amid White Rabbit-esque* drum fills) feel like peering around unknown corners, creating tension as the song floats through an alt folk psychedelic atmosphere of it's own making. When the bass snakes through and the keys change the groove, the song shifts into more of a sort of 70's psyche rock vibe.
Protector is a shifting psychedelic animal, haunting but so beautiful.
The band released an Official Video for Protector (from last years Mother album) as directed and animated by Ben Clement. Bathed in static charged imagery the video feels Gothic and other worldly.
-Robb Donker Curtius
*"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Dylan Nowik, of Steady Sun, and vocalist Liza Ibarra began Camp Saint Helene shortly after moving to the Catskill Mountains. Their studio, where they did most of their writing, is located on the site of a former Christian summer camp-turned-arts-colony, which has informed much of their artistic process. Their sound lies somewhere within a shimmer of hope and a hint of doom.
Nowik and Ibarra teamed up with Alex P. Wernquest (drums) and Wesley Harper (bass and keys), to record their first album to 8-track, ½” tape, at Basement Floods Records in Catskill, New York. Their debut record, Mother, was released on September 27th, 2019 .
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