herbal tea // Hear as the Mirror Echoes TAPE

イギリス・ブリストルのドリームポップ作家herbal teaが、2025年8月にアメリカ・シカゴのインディーレーベルOrindal Recordsからリリースしたカセットです。

ドリームポップ〜スローコア9曲を収録。DLコード付属。

レーベルメイトのGia Margaretが好きな方にオススメです。

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Includes DL code. 
Cassette in norelco case. 
Cassette edition of 50. 

Tracklist:

1. Seventeen 06:31
2. Grounded 06:03
3. Kitchen Floor (4 A.M.) 03:40
4. Submarine 03:31
5. Driving Slow 04:05
6. Garden 04:19
7. Frank 04:08
8. Sundown 02:57
9. Kara 05:56

Orindal Records:

"British artist herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream. Shaped slowly by songwriter/producer Helena Walker from late-night demos that gradually bloomed into expansive arrangements.

Drawing on dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi production, and citing influences from Sparklehorse to Sharon Van Etten, there's an otherworldly quality in the way it softly reimagines the familiar. From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow", each track belongs to its own distinct world. The songs swell with ambient textures and bursts of distortion, building into cinematic crescendos before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano and lo-fi dissonance. Helena's vocals, often recorded at the time of writing, are ghostly with an undercurrent of gravity, submerged within layers of rich harmonies. Themes of impermanence, dissociation, and emotional transience run throughout, with lyrics lifted from dreams, old diaries, and moments of stream-of-consciousness.

Co-produced with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Henry C Sharpe, the record was mixed and mastered entirely DIY in makeshift setups in living rooms and bedrooms, though a few details were finalised in the basement studio of Bristol’s The Louisiana with entrusted friend Jonny Allan (of Happyness).

Over time, herbal tea’s music has spread quietly, passed between artists and listeners without much promotion. She has been invited to open for musicians she deeply admires, including Gia Margaret and Elena Tonra, and her music continues to find an audience through word-of-mouth, admired for its emotional weight and rare sense of atmosphere. “I’ve always felt like a bit of an outsider, and making music is my escape.” Helena says. “I hope this album can be that escape for someone else.” "

Artist : herbal tea

Label : Orindal Records

cat no : ORD78

Release date : 29th August 2025