Kieran Hellum and the sad dreaminess of "Conversations" (feat. JOBY!)

 

"I don't want to fall in love..."

"Conversations" by Honolulu based singer songwriter Kieran Hellum feels, from the onset, very intimate and wistful. The combination of an upfront acoustic playing octaves (likely Drop D) is extremely dreamy and sad. It is a sound I love and Hellum brilliantly opposes that stripped down sound with hazey droning tones, a shuffling beat and his vocal aesthetic that pierces through the fog in such an evocative way. Hellum vocal sound is artfully lo-fi with a gentle distortion embracing it as lead guitar sustains, bigger guitar eruptions, bottom tones and background tones, that remind me of whale sounds, ebb and flow. You find yourself getting lost and sinking so deep in the sad loveliness that before you know it the song ends to a single acoustic guitar and street sounds like cars whizzing past a lone busker.

Of the track Hellum shares:

"I wrote the main riff at 3am in my friends garage and it had this simple melancholic bliss to it and we recorded it through my iPhone on voice memos. I added some layers and the sound of the two guitars going back and fourth sounded like a conversation between the two guitars, which created the name of the song. The lyrical content might not make a lot of sense from the first listen but it is about the empty and slightly sad feeling you get when you move away from home and the cold air hits you when you are leaving the airport. It also speaks about a girl and how I'm not one to usually fall in love."

It is nice to dream even if it feels like dark waters.

-Robb Donker Curtius

Kieran Hellum · Conversations (feat. JOBY!)

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Kieran Hellum, singer-songwriter, acoustic, indie folk, indie pop, Honolulu, Hawaii, "Conversations", featuring JOBY, stark dreaminess, somber tones, wistful tones,