The Late B.P. Helium is the solo recording project and, at times, stage name of Elephant Six musician Bryan Poole,[1] who also goes by Bryan Helium.Poole has spent much of his musical career playing bass and guitar on and off with of Montreal and Elf Power since the mid-1990s.[2] He was also a member of the XTC cover band Helium Kids (a.k.a. The Mummers) from 1994 to 1995. In 2001, he released a few singles and submitted tracks to various compilations before offering his first EP, Kumquat Mae, on his 2002 tour with The Visitations. It was later re-released on Orange Twin Records in 2003, and allowed him to work on his solo debut album, Amok, which was also released on Orange Twin in 2004.