{"title":"Helen Ganya","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"polish-the-machine","title":"Polish the Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Helen Ganya, entering her thirties made her question and pull away from the heteronormative social constructs that surround us. On her new album \u003ci\u003ePolish the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, the Brighton-based songwriter stretches away from the suburban nightmare, seeking a cathartic reprieve that looks beyond the ordinary. “I was looking to the truth of removing any expectations that we’ve acquired along the way,” she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously performing under the moniker Dog in the Snow, Ganya’s 2017 album \u003ci\u003eConsume Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Battle Worldwide) introduced a meticulous and elegant voice, while 2019 album \u003ci\u003eVanishing Lands\u003c\/i\u003e (Bella Union) - inspired by the striking imagery in a period of vivid dreams - utilised swirling dream-pop and haunting post-punk to present an eerie, unflinching look at the often nightmarish reality of the present world. polish the machine leans further into Ganya’s interiority, but refuses to succumb to despondency, instead pursuing a platform for community and tentative optimism. Here, the constraints of societal roles are loosened to encourage a different route: a wandering, ever-evolving path. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50506951262539,"sku":"1165163","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50506951360843,"sku":"1165162","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/615d336f-88b8-4b0d-87a5-3f233cf4ed09_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727833963"},{"product_id":"share-your-care","title":"Share Your Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2021, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter \u003cstrong\u003eHelen Ganya\u003c\/strong\u003e's grandmother passed away. The grief hit the artist hard, not only because it marked the loss of her last remaining grandparent, but also because it felt like her links to being half-Thai were disintegrating, roots quaking and shifting in uncharted territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGanya grew up in Singapore, but spent her summers in the northeast of Thailand where her mum's side of the family is from, visiting her grandmother. Where would all those memories go now that the person at the centre of them was gone? What was her relationship to this place without that glue? And so, in an attempt to process it all, Ganya began to write. \"I got my diary and wrote every single memory of my time as a child in Thailand, spending time with her, my grandad, my aunts and cousins and everything,\" she explains. \"I had these snapshots of memories that I just wrote down because I just suddenly panicked: it was like, who am I, then?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was for this reason that, while \u003cem\u003eHelen Ganya\u003c\/em\u003e was waiting for her acclaimed 2022 album, \u003cem\u003epolish the machine\u003c\/em\u003e, to come out, she was already working on what would become her arresting new record, \u003cem\u003eShare Your Care\u003c\/em\u003e. Ganya has been releasing music since 2015 (formerly under the moniker Dog in the Snow). In the records she's put out over the years, she's shown a proclivity towards dark and artful rock and off-kilter sounds, garnering praise from the likes of the Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud \u0026amp; Quiet and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eShare Your Care\u003c\/em\u003e marks a new era, building on Ganya's past sonic worlds and interspersing them with traditional Thai instrumentation, resulting in a plush, luminous, psych-tinged affair that is full of feeling. The result is a triumphant, abundant record, teeming with heart and cinematic warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50784352174411,"sku":"2231967","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50784350470475,"sku":"2231966","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_-_2024-11-08T134216.374_e46a609e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731074499"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/helen-ganya.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}