Helena Deland

Born in Vancouver, after a spell in Summerland, British Columbia, and raised in Québec before settling in Montréal, Helena Deland develops an English-language writing voice nourished by a bilingual background and by a literature degree from UQAM. Her music moves between art pop, indie folk and chamber pop, with arrangements that blend guitar, piano, discreet electronic textures and a vocal with intimate phrasing. After a first EP, Drawing Room (2016), Deland refines her universe with the From the Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” Vol. I, II, III & IV published in 2018, where spare ballads, more synth-driven tracks and compositions centered on human relationships coexist. She also appears on JPEGMAFIA’s “Free the Frail” (2019), a sign of a natural circulation between indie and experimental scenes. Her debut album, Someone New (2020), extends this approach by articulating introspective writing and a more expansive production. In 2021, Deland formed the duo Hildegard with Montréal-based producer Ouri, in a more electronic and atmospheric register, with a first joint album the same year followed by Jour 1596 in 2024. Returning to a more acoustic material on Goodnight Summerland (2023), produced with Sam Evian, Deland tightens her writing further and confirms a trajectory built between the Canadian scene, North American indie circuits and Europe.