Hélène Barbier
Indie
Post Punk
Rock
Bio
Hélène Barbier seeds melodies that ferment and blossom in the shadows, pairing hummable lines with alien tunes conjured in someone else’s psyche across time and space. Siamese fragments. She creates an imbalance through juxtaposition. Four simple notes become evocative alongside four disorienting, different notes, and this simplistic rule has become a basis for complex play.
Barbier enlists musicians based on willingness to break from tired chords, worn fills, and needless flourish—expertise aside. She switches between English and French atop aggressively anti-complicated avant-pop melodies. Off-kilter beauty ensues. Pretension and contrived professionalism are kept far away as these sketches find mature forms in an album that keeps the tedium of square music at bay.
Following Have You Met Elliot ? in 2019 and Regulus in 2021, the Montreal-based singer and bassist releases Panorama in the fall of 2025. With its gooey jangle pop riffs, throaty melodies, and tangled grooves, this third solo album evokes a dying jukebox spitting out its last perfect songs.
