Helen Ryders sophomore album Love Over Hate is a reflection on love and hate, so intricately
entwined in the times we currently live in.
Helen has created a lavishly orchestrated sound to
accomodate a voice that goes deep and low and soars high and intimate, on songs that
contemplate love, loss and hope.
The first single Magnetic Field was released in June, followed by
Josephine (Love Is Everything) in September.
Love Over Hate was co-produced with Helen and Aria Award winning Bruce Haymes (Paul Kelly,
You Am I) and recorded by Roger Bergodaz (Lost Ragas, Tex Perkins) at Union Street Studio,
Melbourne.
The sessions included Haymes on piano, Wurlitzer and organ, Shane Reilly (Lost
Ragas, Emma Donovan), on guitars, pedal steel and string arrangements, Stephen Hadley (Tex
Perkins) on bass, Bergodaz on drums and Katie Bates (Hannah Aldridge) and Stephen Grady
(Songs Of The Canyon) on backing vocals.
A follow up to her lauded 2015 debut album Someday Love, this new LP, available on CD and
Limited Edition White Vinyl, is the album Helen has always longed to make.
Joining Helen on stage will be Bruce Haymes on keys, Lachlan Bryan (Henry Wagons, The
Pleasures) on guitars, Stephen Hadley on bass and Tony Floyd (The Black Sorrows) on drums.
Special opening guest is singer-songwriter Joyce Prescher.