The Hellp are back, and they’re bringing us home. Their new single, “Colorado,” is a glittering trip through memory and longing, wrapped in an electroclash haze of indie sleaze charm.
A duo consisting of vocalist Noah Dillion and producer-composer Chandler Lucy, The Hellp have made a name for themselves, melding raw emotion and tongue-in-cheek storytelling. “Colorado” is no exception. “Colorado” begins with Dillion’s husky, nearly confessional vocals set against a foundation of warm guitar riffs and pulsating synths. “The sky is lookin’ “Colorado,” but I am covered in gray, And I was thinkin’ ’bout a lover, but I couldn’t get her to stay,” he laments, offering a line that sums up “Colorado” insight of long-suffering to return to the past while being trapped in an ever amorphous present.
“Colorado” strikes a balance between nostalgia and reinvention sonically. It is a fuzzy yet intimate production, an evolution from the duo’s electroclash roots but with a more ragged, less keyboard-squelchy feel. It’s a midnight drive without a place to go, a flickering memory you can’t seem to shake, a soundtrack for the beautifully confused.
Asserting that with “Colorado,” The Help once again mines its own singular space, where heartbreak meets humor, and the past is always an arpeggiated synth line away.