A sign of the times, ghastly and hallucinatory – Helen Island creates alternative pop music that echoes late capitalism and the saccharine gaze of the digital world. The Paris-based cross-disciplinary artist – exploring painting, poetry, and other forms of conceptual art next to music – has a characteristic bedroom style of production, featuring filtered high notes, ripped samples, cut-up genres, and processed vocals. After self-releasing several cassettes and digital editions, with the ethos of the Simple Music Experience collective, 2024 marked the year of Helen Island’s debut album on Knekelhuis. End of March 2025 the follow-up album, “silence is priceless” came out at Knekelhuis and an EP is set to be released in September 2025.