LOVE OVER HATE

Helen Ryder’s new album Love Over Hate is a reflection on love and hate, so intricately entwined in the current times we live in. The first single Magnetic Field, was released in June 2025 with a second single Josephine (Love Is Everything) in September.

Following his work on her debut album Someday Love, Helen again teamed up with ARIA Award-winning producer Bruce Haymes (Paul Kelly, You Am I) for her new album Love Over Hate, with Haymes also lending his skills on piano, Wurlitzer and organ. Helen also teamed up with Roger Bergodaz (Tex Perkins, Lost Ragas) on recording, drumming and mixing duties, alongside returning collaborator Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas, Emma Donovan) on pedal steel, guitars, and string and brass arrangements, with Stephen Hadley (Tex Perkins, Paul Kelly) on bass and Stephen Grady (Songs of the Canyon) and Katie Bates (Hannah Aldridge) on backing vocals.

Helen says of Love Over Hate “Writing for my second album and bringing together the musicians that made the songs sound just as I imagined; from my humble demos to fully realised songs has been a real highlight for me. I’m excited to be finally sharing Love Over Hate because I feel this album speaks of the times we are living in, with songs about love’s power to overcome hate on a personal and political level. It is the album I have always longed to make.”