'Seventeen' is taken from the debut album by herbal tea, 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', out August 29, 2025 on @orindal and @golddayrecs

listen: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

Vinyl, cassette & digital download: https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as-the-mirror-echoes

Official music video: https://youtu.be/9REDwrcqdV8?si=BhNgyIwZr3XALtI6

Lyrics: 
I'm inventing life again at seventeen,
Dancing in a drawing room, 
like in a dream.

I feel one hundred,
won't you come and dance with me? 

You say you want to love me, 
you say it’s all lies, 
but tell me when are you 
going to spit me back out.

I can't recall my birthday, 
where has it been?
but on this lake I am floating 
away downstream. 

Moments are much sweeter 
existing as a memory.

seventeen

'Submarine' is taken from the debut album by herbal tea, 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', out August 29, 2025 on @orindal and @golddayrecs

listen: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

Vinyl, cassette & digital download: herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as…mirror-echoes

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuOWDWaWr_I

Lyrics:
I don't know why I'm walking
through these streets at night alone
when will my love be here
when will you come and save me?

I'm like a submarine
I'm looking through the periscope
nobody sees me
my eyes are only open for you
mind is barely open.

down in the soil
up in smoke
a huff of heavy fumes
trying not to think of then,
when she was always hiding.

I don't know why I'm walking
down this road
the 'ship has flown
soared out of the atmosphere
like you're already losing
mind, you're barely bruising
mind, you're barely losing
losing.

submarine

from album 'hear as the mirror echoes' (2025) out now: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

herbal tea's debut album drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream. Shaped slowly by Helena Walker from late-night demos into expansive arrangements, it blends dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi textures.

From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow," the record swells with ambient layers and bursts of distortion before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano. Themes of impermanence and emotional transience run throughout, with Helena's ghostly vocals submerged in rich harmonies.

Out now on Orindal Records (US) and Gold Day (UK)

Vinyl, cassette & digital: https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as-the-mirror-echoes

Credits
Released August 29, 2025
All songs written by Helena Walker
Performed, recorded, produced & mixed by Helena Walker & Henry C Sharpe in Bristol homes
Mastered by Henry C Sharpe
Additional engineering (2, 4) and mixing (6) by Jonny Allan at The Louisiana Recording Studio, Bristol
Cover photography by Sarah Rose Currie

driving slow

frank

grounded

from album 'hear as the mirror echoes' (2025) out now: https://album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

herbal tea's debut album drifts in and out like a half-remembered dream. Shaped slowly by Helena Walker from late-night demos into expansive arrangements, it blends dream pop, ambient folk, and lo-fi textures.

From the ethereal slowcore of "Seventeen" to the 70s folk-inspired "Driving Slow," the record swells with ambient layers and bursts of distortion before folding back into quiet moments of sparse piano. Themes of impermanence and emotional transience run throughout, with Helena's ghostly vocals submerged in rich harmonies.

Out now on Orindal Records (US) and Gold Day (UK)

Vinyl, cassette & digital: https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as-the-mirror-echoes

Credits
Released August 29, 2025
All songs written by Helena Walker
Performed, recorded, produced & mixed by Helena Walker & Henry C Sharpe in Bristol homes
Mastered by Henry C Sharpe
Additional engineering (2, 4) and mixing (6) by Jonny Allan at The Louisiana Recording Studio, Bristol
Cover photography by Sarah Rose Currie

sundown

kara

get it for free here - https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/

written, recorded, produced by me in my bedroom.

lyrics:
do you have a second heart?
one that makes the room for more.
out of the words i thought you'd said,
those were the ones that stuck. 

wandering through the corridors, 
picturing people waiting for
me to leave my hospital
trying to stay awake.

second heart

'kitchen floor (4am)' now part of the debut album by herbal tea, 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', out August 29, 2025

listen: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

Vinyl, cassette & digital download: https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as-the-mirror-echoes

single streaming link - fanlink.to/herbaltea

written & co-produced/mixed by herbal tea
recorded, produced and mix/mastered by HC Sharpe

lyrics:
i don't care what you say, anymore 
feel my pain is hanging on the kitchen floor, again 
where are you? can't get through, for so long 
i don't know where it's gone, 
but i want someone like an old friend. 

days have passed, the evening comes so soon 
went too far, lost the plate and the spoon, again 
where are you in this room, holding fumes 
i don't know what i'm worth, 
but i want someone like an old friend.

kitchen floor (4am)

adult moment (demo)

'garden' now part of the debut album by herbal tea, 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', out August 29, 2025

listen: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

Vinyl, cassette & digital: https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as-the-mirror-echoes

music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oFBBjZmxM

single streaming link - ffm.to/htgarden 

written, recorded & produced by herbal tea
additional instrumentation/production by henry-c sharpe
mixed & mastered by jonny allan
cover photography by sarah currie

lyrics
i don't belong here anymore
empathic like sonar
if you asked me what the terror's for
i couldn't tell you

i live and breathe in memories
the good and the ugly
picking apart formalities
like plasticine

i was born in a garden 
on the outside of fears
where cassandra slowly overtakes, overhears
i was born in a garden
when i liked being me
before the burden of my body

thoughts pass by like a bird in flight
if you don't catch them quick

garden

https://herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/unwrap-ep

lyrics:
with you in the front seat
i'm in the back seat 
i'm in a taxi 
i'm in a suitcase
travelling sideways
folded in corners 
of layered old ties 
i'm only here because
you told me not to 
sink in the bathtub 
running a painting
you're in the front seat
i'm in the back seat
holding your cutlery
i'd only run away.

front seat painting

herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/unwrap-ep

lyrics: 
someday i will run
where time is still in reach

today the least i can do
is wash my face

everyone needs someone
wired, wild horses

someday i will run
with wired, wild horses

someday (wired horses)

herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/unwrap-ep

lyrics:
i haven't met you
but i can't believe all my thoughts
i'm distracted by the words i said
and i don't talk
it's only me
that moves forwards
it's only me and you

i know i'm changing,
for now, lets watch the life of a cloud
because I know, you taught me how
you said it was better for me to find out by myself

track four

herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/unwrap-ep

lyrics: 
this big world is not always what it seems,
how it swallows me
i'm in the vacuum with the dust,
i'm making friends with the particles
this was not supposed to be a struggle at the apogee
and i'm so far away from home,
swimming out of the stratosphere

i'm so far away from home,
that i've given in to the atmosphere
and i'm so tired of losing hope,
that i've given in to the atmosphere

everything is floating in apathy, and echoing
we can control our limbs
but not our weight at the scaffolding,
i'm so tired of losing friends,
your mouth repeats all words at once

i'm so far away from home,
that i've given in to the atmosphere
and i'm so tired of losing hope
that i've given in to the atmosphere

drifting
breathing
losing
hope

apogee

herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/unwrap-ep

lyrics:
hold a lonely soul
let it go
let it be alone

hold a lonely soul
lonely ghost
never been alone

hold on lonely soul
only hope
not to be alone

holding out your soul
out your ghost
out your telephone

lonely ghost

'hear as the mirror echoes' - debut album out now
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