Over his first three albums, Homeshake's Peter Sagar followed his own idiosyncratic vision, a journe that's taken him from sturdy guitar-based indie-pop to a bleary-eyed take on lo-fi R&B. Now, with 'Helium', Sagar is putting down roots in aesthetic territory all his own. It comes through not only in the gauziness of the production, but also in the vulnerability of the songs themselves. The record is stitched together by a series of instrumental interludes, synthesizer explorations whose haziness adds to the suspicion that this is all an uncanny dream. Where his previous three records were recorded directly to one-inch tape in a local studio, 'Helium' was recorded and mixed by Sagar alone in his apartment in Montreal in early 2018. Freed of the rigid editing process he'd endured before, he was able to lose himself in pursuit of tone and texture. A budding interest in ambient and experimental music pushed him to tinker with the micro-sounds that surround the songs here. It's a far cry from the chorus-laden guitars of his earlier work.