In this new Noise11.com interview, Paul Cashmere sits down with Helen Ryder to talk about her new album Love Over Hate – her first in a decade following 2014’s Someday Love.
The conversation explores how Ryder’s recovery from a car accident inspired a deeply personal yet socially aware collection of songs. From the slow reflection of In The Slow Lane to the euphoric shimmer of Magnetic Field and the tender tribute Josephine, the album captures love in all its complexity – romantic, familial and universal.
Helen Ryder discusses working with longtime collaborator Bruce Haymes, as well as Roger Bergodaz and Shane Reilly, who helped shape the record’s lush, atmospheric sound. She also reflects on her earlier collaboration with the late Spencer P. Jones on Ladybird, her Ode To Bobbie Gentry tribute show, and how her influences – from Bobbie Gentry to Dusty Springfield – continue to inform her songwriting and voice.
With its heartfelt themes and cinematic scope, Love Over Hate is both a statement of resilience and an embrace of empathy. “If we come from love,” Ryder says, “we find our way through.”
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