4
panel digipak with artwork by Matthew Woodson
Includes unlimited streaming of Yume via the
free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The
latest album from Helios, Yume takes its title from the Japanese word for
“dream” and delivers an otherworldly ambient/electronic hybrid that’s cinematic
in scope yet intimate in emotion. In making the album,
composer/multi-instrumentalist Keith Kenniff (the sole artist behind Helios)
has created a warm sonic tapestry from luminous guitar lines, elegant piano
work, ingeniously crafted rhythms, and lo-fi electronic elements.
Though Kenniff’s graceful maneuvering of mood
and tone lends Yume a journey-like quality, the album offers pieces as
captivatingly disparate as “Pearls” (which blends heavy beats and lilting piano
melodies, cascading guitar riffs and airy atmospherics) and “Embrace” (which
closes out the album with a glimmering expanse of sound). Built from both
electronic experimentation and live instrumentation, Yume also constructs its
richly detailed textures by drawing from a repertoire of sound that ranges from
toy tambourines to serendipitously recorded environmental noises.