Skullcrusher Live at Prachtwerk Berlin

And Your Song is Like a Circle, the second album from New York-based artist Skullcrusher, a.k.a. Helen Ballentine, winds its way into an everchanging, unstable core. Swaying between vaporous folk and crystalline electronics, landing somewhere in the snowfields shared by Grouper and Julia Holter, the album probes the ways that grief turns itself inside out. Recorded over several years following her return to New York’s Hudson Valley, the record blurs the line between human and machine. While her first album rendered the intimacies of domestic space, Circle finds itself vaporized across the landscape: swirling, drifting, and searching. Ballentine describes her work as a collection that eventually forms a circle, with each project tracing a new line around her body of work.