Helms Alee - Keep This Be the Way '2022

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       Taking their name from a nautical term for tacking a sailboat, Seattle's
Helms Alee meld jangly shoegaze with sludge metal to create a hybrid sound all
their own. Emerging in the late 2000s, the band's loose, melodic report
simultaneously evokes the effervescent discordance of the Pixies and the
pounding heaviness of Big Business and the Melvins. The lighter side of their
work was most audible on early releases such as 2011's Weatherhead, while they
grew both heavier and more stylistically diverse on later LPs like 2019's
Noctiluca, and they explored the creative possibilities of the studio on 2022's
Keep This Be the Way.



1.01 - Helms Alee - See Sights Smell Smells (2:42)
1.02 - Helms Alee - Keep This Be the Way (3:33)
1.03 - Helms Alee - How Party Do You Hard? (2:38)
1.04 - Helms Alee - Tripping Up the Stairs (4:02)
1.05 - Helms Alee - Big Louise (3:09)
1.06 - Helms Alee - Do Not Expose to the Burning Sun (6:50)
1.07 - Helms Alee - The Middle Half (1:11)
1.08 - Helms Alee - Mouth Thinker (4:13)
1.09 - Helms Alee - Three Cheeks to the Wind (2:32)
1.10 - Helms Alee - Guts for Brains (5:09) 

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