{"product_id":"skullcrusher-quiet-the-room-cd","title":"Skullcrusher - Quiet The Room (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eHelen Ballentine's spellbinding first full-length album Quiet the Room\r\nis the sound of a window opening, a barrier dissolving. Across these\r\nfourteen tracks, the outside world seeps in and the inside world crawls\r\nout. The result is a stunning and quietly moving work that reflects the\r\njourneys we take through the physical and spiritual realms of ourselves in\r\norder to show up for the world.\r\n While writing the album in the summer of 2021, Ballentine drew\r\ninspiration from her childhood home in Mount Vernon, NY. What she set\r\nout to capture on Quiet the Room was not the innocence of childhood,\r\nas it is so often portrayed, but the intense complexity of it. Past and\r\npresent merge Escher-like in this dreamlike space laced with elements\r\nof fantasy, magic, and mystery. Musically, this translates into a sound that\r\nfeels somehow weighty and ephemeral all at once, like a time lapse of\r\ncopper corroding.\r\n To capture the effortless blend of electronic, ambient, folk, and rock,\r\nBallentine and her partner and collaborator Noah Weinman brought in\r\nproducer Andrew Sarlo to record at Chicken Shack studio in Upstate New\r\nYork, close to where Ballentine grew up. \"We wanted every song to have\r\nthat little twinkle, but also a sense of crumbling,\" she says. These songs\r\nthrum with moments of anxiety that boil over into moments of peace,\r\nas on lead single \"Whatever Fits Together,\" which chugs to a ragged\r\nstart before the gears catch and ease. On \"It's Like a Secret,\" Ballentine\r\nstruggles to connect and let people in, recognizing that no one can ever\r\nfully know our inner worlds and that to understand each other is to cross\r\na barrier and leave a part of ourselves behind. And yet, on closing track\r\n\"You are my House,\" she finds a way to reach out. \"You are the walls and\r\nfloors of my room,\" she sings in perfect, hopeful harmony.\r\n As the album cover invites, these are dollhouse songs to which we bend\r\na giant eye, peering into the laminate, luminous world that Ballentine has\r\ncreated. Like a kid constructing a shelter in a patch of sharp brambles,\r\nshe reminds us that beauty and terror can exist in the same place.\r\nThe complexities of childhood are so often overlooked, but through\r\nthese private yet generous songs, she gives new weight to our earliest\r\nmemories, widening the frame for us-even opening a window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey Quiet the Room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Building a Swing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Whatever Fits Together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Whistle of the Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lullaby in February\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pass Through Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Could It Be the Way I Look at Everything?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Outside Playing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e It's Like a Secret\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sticker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Window Somewhere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (Secret Instrumental)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Quiet the Room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e You Are My House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50553919242514,"sku":"656605041025","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/skullcrusher-quiet-the-room-cd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}