Helene Rickhard steps into the light with Everlasting High, a new full‑length outing on Oslo’s Snick Snack imprint. The album drifts through warm, sun‑soaked textures, drawing on childhood summers in southern Norway without falling into easy memory. Rickhard folds ambient passages, techno pulses, and experimental fragments into a hazy, psychedelic weave. Her DJ background shows: kosmische repetitions rub against contemporary club shapes, while gentle Krautrock grooves lock with unexpected electronic turns. Vocals appear as soft layers stitched into the fabric, never demanding the spotlight. The whole record breathes with a relaxed sureness, never raising its voice. For years, she has worked quietly beneath her homeland’s electronic surface, but this release edges her closer to the open, without losing the strange appeal that kept her there.

Premiered here, “Mad Girl” wraps itself in a different kind of warmth. Dubbed‑out synth pop, gauzy and unhurried, with traces of eighties synth shimmer and shoegaze’s blurred guitar haze. Helene Rickhard reveals a fine‑tuned pop sensibility here – melodies that stick without begging for attention, arrangements that exhale slowly. Her vocal drifts in like a memory: part Kate Bush’s theatrical hush, part Enya’s floating calm, part Fever Ray’s quiet menace, yet never mimicking any of them. This is not music for a packed floor at 2am. It comes as a coziness entity, the kind of track you curl into when the evening has wound down and the headphones feel like the best company. Gentle kicks, layered reverb, a bassline that hugs rather than pounds. “Mad Girl” knows that intimacy carries its own strength, and it wields that strength without shouting. A beautiful, strange lullaby for the after‑hours glow.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label.

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