Remo Helfenstein - Spite

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: PE-047
Barcode: 5051142058799
Release Date: 14 Nov 2025
Genre: Experimental Pop / Wave / Psychedelic / Gospel

Meeting vulnerability with persistence, Lucerne-based musician Remo Helfenstein presents Spite, his first solo album on Präsens Editionen. Whereas his 2022 debut EP, Comforting Katharina, traced raw, devotional impulses, Spite expands the terrain—balancing psychedelic drift with sudden moments of clarity, wounded grandeur with flashes of pop transcendence.

The record thrives on contradiction: oscillating between the no wave austerity of Suicide and the meditative (and dadaist) expanses of Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s collaborative work, while opening into passages of gospel-infused spaciousness. At times intimate and porous, at times expansive and ecstatic, Helfenstein shapes a sound world that fuses analog and digital processes—both deeply personal and insistently collective. This duality comes to life most strikingly in recordings with fellow musicians Klara Germanier (background vocals and guitar), Raphael Loher (keys), Manuel Troller (guitar), and Olivier Vogel (bass), featured in various constellations across all seven tracks.

Spite is not devotional music, but devotion itself: unyielding, uncompromising, vital. It insists on its own necessity—created because it had to be.

* Edition of 200 vinyl
* Published by Präsens Editionen
* Artwork by Denise Häberli & Remo Bitzi at Swiss-German creative agency INTR
* Free DL ((there is no code enclosed, but shops are welcome to offer a free DL when someone orders the record))

Tracklist
A1 Hey
A2 333
A3 Tremor
A4 Jungle
B1 Accordion
B2 All
B3 Mal de Mer