“...blend[s] ideas from across time and land into elegant tunes where serpentine melodies are cradled and cajoled by exquisite arrangements.” -Chicago Reader


“Music that is unstuck in time.” - Wall Street Journal 


Doug Balliett, baroque bass, viola da gamba, electric bass

Brad Balliett, bassoons

Majel Connery, vocals

Elliot Cole, vocals, harmonium, electric guitar, electric bass 

Jason Treuting, percussion (guest)


Co-produced by Opera Cabal and Elliot Cole

Recorded by: Oracle Hysterical, Alexander Overington and Christopher Botta

Mixed & mastered by Christopher Botta

More about the album


"Kind of delightfully bonkers really."

- BBC Radio 3


"Evocative art pop from the unlikeliest of sources, Euripides play Hecuba. Oracle Hysterical, a group made up of new classical and early music performers, has crafted a lovely and elegant album about a terrifying, savage tragedy."

- Brooklyn Rail

"The result is a work that is quiet and subtle, but dramatic, with a beautifully bittersweet indie-rock sound. 'Helen' translates the power and pain of a very old story into something that feels new and universal."

-  Gabriela Tedeschi, Second Inversion

"Tracks elide and slide into one another, the band adding vocals to wall of sound, existential angst made flesh....it’s music you’ll cherish."

- Sherri Rase, Q On Stage

"...blend[s] ideas from across time and land into elegant tunes where serpentine melodies are cradled and cajoled by exquisite arrangements...features gripping slice-and-dice postproduction, with [Majel] Connery’s crystalline voice chopped into percussive phonemes amid chattering acoustic guitar zigzags and stuttering drums.”

- Chicago Reader