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Aggie Theatre PresentsSKULLCRUSHER
MON, 5 AUG 2024 at 08:00PM MDT
Ages: Guests Under 18 Require Accompanying Adult
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 10 May 2024 at 11:00AM MDT
Announcement: Tue, 7 May 2024 at 11:00AM MDT
Helen Ballentine’s spellbinding first full-length album Quiet the Room is the sound of a window opening, a barrier dissolving. Across these fourteen tracks, the outside world seeps in and the inside world crawls out. The result is a stunning and quietly moving work that reflects the journeys we take through the physical and spiritual realms of ourselves in order to show up for the world. While writing the album in the summer of 2021, Ballentine drew inspiration from her childhood home in Mount Vernon, NY. What she set out to capture on Quiet the Room was not the innocence of childhood, as it is so often portrayed, but the intense complexity of it. Past and present merge Escher-like in this dreamlike space laced with elements of fantasy, magic, and mystery. Musically, this translates into a sound that feels somehow weighty and ephemeral all at once, like a time lapse of copper corroding.
As the album cover invites, these are dollhouse songs to which we bend a giant eye, peering into the laminate, luminous world that Ballentine has created. Like a kid constructing a shelter in a patch of sharp brambles, she reminds us that beauty and terror can exist in the same place. The complexities of childhood are so often overlooked, but through these private yet generous songs, she gives new weight to our earliest memories, widening the frame for us—even opening a window.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Aggie Theatre, 204 S College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80524-2811, United States,Fort Collins, Colorado
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