“Unbound” is my way of connecting the songs from “She Reaches Out” with where I’m at now; embodying them in a new way after living with them for so long. As she concludes her “She Reaches Out” trilogy, the proto-gothic songwriter is one step closer to transformation.
The proto-gothic singer, with one hoof in sepulchral folk, the other in darkwave and doom metal, repeats this process of attaching and detaching every 30 days, a cyclical practice that’s also part of a larger arc that has defined her life since 2020. She’s attempting both to slough off a past self and remould from the corpuscles of old flesh her future self she’s still yet to shake the hand of; she’s not who she was, though she’s not quite who she will be either — “The calmer self of my future,” she says.
Chelsea Wolfe presents “Unbound“, the final release in the “She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out” triptych featuring special, stripped-down versions of “Whispers In The Echo Chamber”, “Dusk”, “The Liminal”, and “Place In The Sun”, plus a cover of Spiritbox’s “Cellar Door.“
Wolfe strips the songs down to their raw essence – just her voice, a guitar, or piano – capturing vulnerability and unfiltered truth. The music stands exposed, stripped and skyclad, each track a rite of passage, a descent into the heart.
Released 15/11/2024
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