Content Creatures
Originally Signed Copy!
How do losers dance? According to Helmut, almost weightlessly, with soft feet and warm gestures, sometimes alone, sometimes together.
Content Creatures, Helmut’s fourth album, evokes the pop archetype of the “beautiful loser”, a figure that had nearly vanished in so-called late capitalism. In a present where even suffering is often instrumentalised and optimised for clicks like a competitive sport, the album sets a counterpoint. Listening to it awakens the desire to be enchanting losers again: useless, joyfully messing up, losing something beloved, having one’s heart broken, giving up a dream, sinking into beauty.
You do not sink alone. Comforting harmonies envelop the listener. Voices of friends appear, accompany you for a while, then fade again. Warm grooves, floating synths and delicate guitar lines shape an indie sound that remains open and breathable. Self-produced for the first time in Helmut’s home studio in Neukölln, Content Creatures sounds thoughtful and light at once.