Helen - Linda’s Head [LP]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: KRANK254LP
Barcode: 796441825417
Release Date: 02 Oct 2026
Genre: Dream Pop

Linda’s Head is the first new album in over a decade by the Pacific Northwest trio of Liz Harris (guitar, vocals), Scott Simmons (bass), and Jed Bindeman (drums) .

Like its predecessor, 2015’s The Original Faces, the album maps a uniquely intimate and potent vision of bedroom dream pop. Theirs is a shoegaze of half-light and silhouettes, attuned to the shadowplay of melody, melancholy, and undertow.
 
The record’s title is a refraction of meanings: a head in the clouds, a severance, a fictitious landform jutting into the sea. The music is similarly layered, both yearning and weathered, its edges blurred by years in the wild. Lyrics of waves, storms, and escape further shade the songs in subcurrents of desperation and beauty, tinged in the palette of the New Zealand pop underground. But at its core Helen’s chemistry is one of warmth and release, powered by the kinship of old friends in dark times.

track listing:

 01 - Faraway  02 - Starline  03 - Endless Sky  04 - Linda's Head [listen]  05 - darkblue  06 - Dead shark
 07 - Dead shark II [listen]  08 - black and quiet love  09 - Stay with me  10 - Canyon