Liz Helman
Present Continuous

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Present Continuous Cover

Present Continuous, the new album from London-based artist and composer Liz Helman, sets out from the get-go to create a unified sonic experience. Beginning as an invocation, the opening track Paths Part, invites the listener to embark on a journey of evocative listening, where everyday sounds are mixed with digital interventions that present as drone, glitch, field recordings and random noise. Each track has repetitive elements and motifs that resurface throughout the work delivering us to the edge of an experience, but never fully connecting with it.



We grasp ideas of place and space, but never fully inhabit them. Realities that are commonplace and familiar drift around so that we are invited to construct our own narratives from these sonic clues. The term ‘present continuous’ is a grammatical tense, but in this case Helman offers the present moment composed as an endless flow of snippets and fragments.



Released November 14, 2026, this album arrives in a special digipak CD + booklet edition with imagery by Liz Helman aligned with each track.



Composed and produced by Liz Helman
Mastered by Darren McClure

Photographs by Liz Helman
Artwork layout by Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

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