Electronic
United States
Helium
About Helium
Formed in 1991 in Boston, Helium was the indie rock stomping ground for the wonderfully perverse mind of Mary Timony, where psychosexuality met a mythological universe over a feast of distorted melody. A trio basking in contradictions, Helium’s compositions married the grimy to the orchestral, the grim to the gleefully buoyant, as Timony delicately (yet forcefully) delivered twisted songs about vampires, angels, demons, dragons, and whatever other apparitions caught her fancy. After two college radio chart-topping full-lengths and three EPs on Matador, the trio called it quits at the end of the 1990s, with Timony tumbling into a prolific solo career.
