Skullcrusher turned to songwriting, and David Lynch, as a means of recovery
Helen Ballentine talks her new song “Exhale” and making an album that dragged her through the “necessary chaos” of a life-changing break-up. Skullcrusher Adam Alonzo Helen Ballentine’s ginger tomcat, Finn, slinks into view and perches himself above her right shoulder. Ballentine, who records gauzy and richly tactile folk songs as Skullcrusher, refers to her…