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Helms


helmsmusic.com/ Helms are a three-piece band from the Boston, MA area, founded in 1997. The band consists of Tina (Helms) McCarthy (bass), her husband, Sean McCarthy (guitar/vocals), and his brother, Dan McCarthy (drums). Helms' music is a pensive assemblage of post- and indie-rock elements strung together in long sequences of dynamic and temporal variation. While much of the band's work shares common elements with Rodan and Spiderland-era Slint, a full dissection of Helms' arrangements reveals many noisier and mathier inspirations to go along with the generally introspective tone of most songs. Sean McCarthy's vocals are often whispered low in the mix or coarsely shouted away from the microphone, but are just as likely to be left out all together in favor of deeply layered instrumental patterns. Lyrically, McCarthy speaks in vivid and dream-like prose and thematically gives equal attention to the finite (thumb tacks, G.I. Joes and Pac-Man) and the infinite (the sky and the stars.) Guitar parts involve a great deal of tapping, sometimes with two separate melodies being played on the same instrument at the same time (It Takes Skin To Win from McCarthy) or with McCarthy using his chin to mute the strings while tapping with both hands (Fatbird from Secret Doors.) The percussion compositions are often dizzying, stammered and mechanically repetitive rhythms. The dynamics and speed of the drums are typically restrained and are only occasionally loosed through select...

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