BIOGRAPHY
Helena Deland is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in Vancouver, raised largely in Quebec City, and now based in Montreal. Working in French and English but writing primarily in English, she learned piano and guitar as a child before emerging from the Montreal indie scene with a style that favors texture and timbre over conventional song structure. Her catalog includes five EPs, among them Drawing Room (2016) and the four-volume From the Series of Songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" (2018), followed by two full-length albums: Someone New (2020) and Goodnight Summerland (2023). Both albums were longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, and Someone New appeared on year-end best-of lists from Gorilla vs. Bear, Les Inrockuptibles, The Line of Best Fit, and Exclaim!.