We’re excited that Chelsea Wolfe made the cover of New Noise Magazine, In anticipation of the release of Abyss, the new album from Wolfe and the track “After the Fall” a dystopian love song that also attempts to capture the frustration of being stuck inside a dream, unable to wake up. Abyss came out last August on Sargent House Records. There is not, and never has been, anyone else quite like Chelsea Wolfe. Ever cloaked in a nigh inconceivable darkness, she bridges gaps previously thought to exist in difference dimensions, incorporating forms such as gothic folk, post-grunge and baroque-pop like normal people put on different shirts.
Abyss is the perfect title for her fifth full-length. Producer and longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm helped make this her heaviest album yet, in sharp contrast to 2012’s acoustic Unknown Rooms and 2013’s rather distant-sounding Pain Is Beauty. In addition to contributing synth, bass, piano, and photography to Abyss, he ramped up its dark Trent Reznor-esque electronic edge, and the effect is palpable. It feels like being crushed for most of its running time, yet there is still room for the little moments of introspective character, for lilts of haunting strings and that hint of vulnerability on Wolfe’s spellbinding vocals. Simply put, Abyss is uniquely transcendent.
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