When you walk alone, you’re never lost. At least, that’s the operating prin… Read Full Bio ↴When you walk alone, you’re never lost. At least, that’s the operating principle behind Homeshake, the recording project of Peter Sagar. Over his first three albums, Sagar followed his own idiosyncratic vision, a journey that’s taken him from sturdy guitar-based indie-pop to, on 2017’s Fresh Air, a bleary-eyed take on lo-fi R&B. Now, with Helium, Sagar is putting down roots in aesthetic territory all his own. Landscape that he once viewed from a distance now forms the bedrock of his sound, and from here, he looks back out at the world as if through a light fog, composing songs that feel grounded and intimate, even as they explore a dispersed feeling of isolation.

It’s a feeling that comes through not only in the gauziness of the production, but also in the vulnerability of the songs themselves. Sagar began writing Helium shortly after completing Fresh Air, and in the middle of what he calls a “binge” reading of Haruki Murakami. It’s not hard to picture the narrator of these songs as a distinctly Murakamian character: He moves through time by himself, bemused by and insulated from a world he doesn’t quite seem to have been made for. Everyone Sagar encounters here — including himself — seems to be a step removed from present reality, whether by technology (“Anything At All”), solitude (“Just Like My”), or sweet fantasy (“Like Mariah”). The record is stitched together by a series of instrumental interludes, synthesizer explorations whose haziness adds to the suspicion that this is all an uncanny dream.

Which isn’t to say that Sagar is unmoored in his own world. In fact, much of Helium is the result of what he calls “a much clearer mental state” than the one he’d experienced shortly following Fresh Air’s completion. “I had a better idea of the sound that was working for this record and what it was turning into as I was writing the songs,” he says. That’s owing in part to the album’s genesis. Where his previous three records were recorded directly to one-inch tape in a local studio, Helium was recorded and mixed by Sagar alone in his apartment in Montreal’s Little Italy neighborhood between April and June of this year. Freed of the rigid editing process he’d endured before, he was able to lose himself in pursuit of tone and texture. “I didn’t have to book time, compete for good hours, wait on availability. I did a lot of it at home in the middle of the night,” he says. “It made me get more obsessive about details.”

A budding interest in ambient and experimental music — particularly Visible Cloaks, DJ Rashad, and Jlin — pushed him to tinker with the micro-sounds that surround the songs here. It’s a process he found creatively invigorating; even the tinkling boom-bap of Young Thug informs “All Night Long.” It’s a far cry from the chorus-laden guitars of his earlier work. “Ever since I started introducing synthesizers into my music, I’ve gotten more interested in texture,” he says. “I’d hit a creative dead end [with guitars], so synths took over.” The warm chords of a Roland Juno 60 form the album’s base, and gave him a clean palette with which to work. “No tape hiss, no humming power outlets and shitty mixing boards,” as he puts it. “Everything just came out nice and pure.”

Still, for all the growth it demonstrates and the ways it luxuriates in its discoveries, Helium is at its core a record that isn’t beholden to any particular set of sounds, textures, or instruments to get its point across. In that sense, it feels closer to the bone, at once assured of its vision and remarkably vulnerable. It’s perhaps our purest view yet of Homeshake’s home country.

This Way
HOMESHAKE Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'This Way' by these artists:

A Colour Cold Black Now and then I see you doing it again You…
A.D.B. The search is over I done found a real one.…
Addy Yuhh Dont know what you want from me Get up out my…
Alex Nelson the last time that we spoke had a bitter end we…
Ariaty Yeah Yuh I gotta keep on pushing I blew up, I left…
Bada Ha Yeah yeah Baby baby baby how So send me these beautiful…
Blacks Call me later, I’m good. Here goes my phone on a…
Cara Một hai ba Lần đầu tiên gặp nhau mà nhìn nhau…
Chilli Beans. 君がいない夜ならもっといい「独り」を「独り占め」意外と心地いいじゃん? かっこよくなろうとしてハマった底なし沼の…

Chris Brown You know I been out here doing me Like I said…
D-D Brown And I did that for you, for myself and for…
D.B. The search is over I done found a real one.…
Dialated people ft Kanye West Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Dilated Peoples Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Dj Mula Yeah silly of you to take em serious Left Em in…
Dub Inc Sorry for this life, I love this way. For one reason,…
Dub Incorporation Sorry for this life, I love this way. For one reason,…
Dust to Dust In a world where not much means a thing You made…
East I be on the grind round this way Trying to survive,…
Fyahbwoy [feat. Twins Of Twins] This is the way we wash our clothesm, wash our clothes,wash…
Game feat. JoiStaRR Game: Mars Chorus: I been looking this way, ever since i…
Grey Reverend Save you some time, shame first It’s going to get bad…
GzLz You give me the most selfish romance And I know I…
Hana Pestle I'm not drowning I don't need your hand to save me I'm…
High & I I'm so sorry that you feel this way that you…
Hollis P. Monroe feat. Christa Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the cover 'Till I tal…
Home And Dry Here we are again The same old argument We've had so many…
i.n.f Be this Way Dont have to be this way Dont have to…
Ice and Fire Reaching up for something real. It's not easy as it…
J-Clark Underneath your cherry tree Autumn leaves on top of me Starr…
Jaden Padilla I don't wanna sleep Ever again 'Cause I don't wanna dream Of…
JAY JIGGY Now we keep up this way Keep up this way Trink′ Champagner,…
Jess ETA We're so dysfunctional you've got to let go of your…
Jet Overhead! On the other side of this day Take the darkest line To…
Jewel Love be still, love be sweet Don't you dare change a…
K Camp Something 'bout her got me feeling this way Out here hustlin…
K. Laurent & Pain Love be still, love be sweet Don't you dare change a…
K.E.L.S.E.Y. The search is over I done found a real one.…
K.I.Z. In einer Welt in der Feinde versuchen deinen Willen zu…
K.I.Z. feat. Tua In einer Welt in der Feinde Versuchen deinen Willen zu brech…
Kalascima Stu cantu lu vulia de raccontare, puru la bella mia…
Kanye West Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Kanye West ft. Others Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Kanye West/Dilated Peoples Feat. Kanye West Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Keenan Charles I swear I get the highest highs and I get…
Khalid You say I'm trippin', bullshit You're the one to make me…
Kid Sublime Feat. U-Gene You make yourself alone Until your last drink is gone…
Ladon Okay, this way, people hate me cause they know I've…
Lane Webber This feeling Is a new feeling to me This feeling It reminds …
Lloyd What's up shawty Come on in I got some incense burning Just …
LOVE PSYCHEDELICO I say hi now, c'mon baby Long time no listen to…
Michelle Branch I don't know how long it's been going on I don't…
Milosh Let's drink in the day, make it last They have this…
mmeadows Help me, my savior reigns He reigns and rains like a…
Mr. Bellyache Circle tight flashing lights Roll up once on you twice Hitt…
Murder Ballads I like it best when the lights are off When…
Mystical Faya Resounds in me like a revelation I take this way, the…
Nero Boy... Why I feel this way (2x) Why I feel this way (th…
P Money and Blacks Call me later, I’m good. Here goes my phone on a…
Pain Love be still, love be sweet Don't you dare change a…
Pain & K Laurent Love be still, love be sweet Don't you dare change a…
Pain & K. Laurent Love be still, love be sweet Don't you dare change a…
Psapp Your milky black eyes, resting on me. Your hand's like pap…
Robin Storm VIctor Nimekam na moto–oh Moto moto–oh (Dj Venji) Dance to …
Scratch Perverts Now turn it up, turn it up (a little louder) Turn…
Star.One I told her she can look but she can't have…
Sterling Avenue Over and over you call my name You come on over,…
Tab-One In einer Welt in der Feinde Versuchen deinen Willen zu brech…
The ARE & Brokn Englsh I see you are bluer Your smiles are far fewer You want…
The Artifacts [Tame One] Hah! The former back of the classroom talk-trash…
The Game And I think I been countin' my hardest days Lord,…
The Legend Now how we 'sposed to really Carry on as a item If…
The Morning Light I wake just to find another day's past me by And…
Tomi Agape On the beat Uh said that you could ride with a…
Tompi Sugar, baby I need to forget it to move on But I…
Trijntje Oosterhuis "train-cha", friday, february the fifth The sun is shinin' A…
Two 9 Cut a nigga off like a temp fade Cut a bitch…
Unkle Bob Never to go where the wind don't blow Always to say…
yungmanny Say (Na, na, na, na, na) say Say (Na, na) say,…

We have lyrics for these tracks by HOMESHAKE:

All Night Long Dressed up like I'm going out, I feel it and…
Another Thing Spendin' this time up Things are alright Here I am outside S…
Anything at All Everyone I know Lives in my cellphone No matter where I go M…
Brothers Brothers Why so still? Feeling empty Feeling ill Roll up One…
Call Me Up I can see the future, we'll be Living it up inside Making…
Careful what if things move quickly shouldnt they be slow bucket ful…
Cash is Money Oh No, No more, make it stop, one, two ahhh She's…
Chowder Hands are hanging lying in a box Breaking after seeing littl…
Don't Try The [?] Tells me whenever you've been crying And [?] better …
Doo Dah Holy moly, get a load of this cat Just woke up…
Every Single Thing (Hey, are you even paying attention to me right now?) Every…
Faded Maybe if I sat her Sat her on the side She could…
Gettin' Down Struttin' your stuff Pack [?] rolled up in a [?] But I've…
Give It To Me I wish you could climb inside my head So you could…
Haters I've been dreamin' lots these days. In a lot of crazy…
He's Heating Up! She's asking me over, so I told her I would Last time…
Heat It's so cold in the D tonight Better layer up, it'll…
Hello welcome Hello, welcome Hello, welcome Hello, welcome Hello, welcome…
He’s Heating Up! She's asking me over, so I told her I would Last time…
Home At Last Look at this place It's not how it used to seem They're…
I Don't Wanna Sticking over (cold weather?) No I can′t stand to be Always …
I Know I Know I Know i know i know i know why you've been speaking softly running…
I'm Too Young I've been up all night long [?] so strong Sick of this…
Inaminit feels like everybody knows something i don't know drag my fe…
Just Like My Guess it's been a few days now Since I left the…
Khmlwugh Something doesn't feel quite right My lips are dry, my shoes…
Khmlwugh# Something doesn't feel quite right My lips are dry, my shoe…
Like Mariah Don't mind me, I'm only sitting here Dreaming something up s…
Love Is Only A Feeling She's laying back feeling low I know how I put her…
Making A Fool Of You Girl, it's been a long time since we spoke Couldn't hear…
Moon Woman Here I am lonely out on the street Know one's around…
Move This Body Standing all alone in the corner It's something that I'm use…
Not U Wait a minute let me try and screw my head…
Nothern Man This is central control This is central control Standby Info…
Nothing Could Be Better I was sitting like I do Doing something slow Mentionin' she'…
Okay Hey what's up, my name is Pete How do you do? Yeah…
Passenger Seat elevator going down stairs going up feeling shy and walking …
SALLY Lately I've been at home going crazy Worrying about my baby …
Salu Says Hi (Um) (Hello) (Hello) (Hello) (Hey) (Hi) (Hello) (Hello) (Hel…
See Ya Oh, now I can feel it. Man, I can't. Oh yeah, I…
She Can't Leave Me Here Alone Tonight Just try to relax (Okay) I turn round, something's missing …
She Can’t Leave Me Here Alone Tonight I turn round, something's missing from my bed Hanging frown,…
Slow Baby, I know that you're lonely, things are moving slowly, o…
Spend It wait a sec tryina get it out but it hasn't left tryina…
Tenterhooks hanging on tenterhooks faking some tender looks tryina move …
The Shower Scene Oh, that's better I've been waiting all day for this Why don…
Under the Sheets Baby, I can see that look in your eyes And I…

What Did He Look Like That's right, yep I've just got... Oh, oops! (laughing) (Oka…

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