Helen Stellar – ‘Moonlight Amnesia’ [EP] [Album Review]

Vastly underrated shoegaze/dream-rock outfit Helen Stellar releases their EP, Moonlight Amnesia, the band’s first new music in a decade. Vocalist/guitarist Jim Evens explains, “For the last ten years, I’ve been writing songs for other projects, trying my hardest to not have them sound like Helen Stellar songs. It’s tricky to try to NOT sound like who you are – and Helen Stellar is who I am.” Once Evens disposed of the pretense, new music flowed forth as if from the floodgates of a dam, allowing him to write Moonlight Amnesia over a two-week span of time. Despite being unsigned, Helen Stellar’s music has been featured in films such as Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, as well as Henry Poole Is Here, Love Happens, and in Gregg Araki’s 2010 film, Kaboom. Comprising four tracks, Moonlight A...

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