Posts Tagged ‘Abyss’

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Hypnos “

Posted: April 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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Chelsea Wolfe’s “Hypnos/Flame” is out today on Sargent House. The two songs are b-sides from the Abyss recording sessions, and available now on 7” black vinyl, digitally, and as part of a special digital deluxe version of Abyss. All formats include previously unreleased demo versions of album tracks “Grey Days,” “Simple Death,” and “Survive.” Check out the various versions below.
Hypnos / Flame 7” — includes download card with 3 additional Abyss demos as bonus tracks. Available here in the US or here for the UK. Ships worldwide. Wolfe and her band kick off their North American headline tour at the end of April, and continue on through June. Set lists will include songs from Apokalypsis to Abyss. London duo and label mates A Dead Forest Index will be joining on most dates, supporting their debut In All That Drifts From Summit Down.

Hypnos / Flame (Digital) — 5 track digital release includes both b-sides plus 3 Abyss demos as bonus tracks. Available digitally on iTunes, Amazon or Bandcamp.

Abyss (Deluxe Edition) (Digital only) — includes full Abyss album plus 5 track “Hypnos / Flame,”

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” After The Fall “

Posted: December 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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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.

Chelsea Wolfe On The Cover of New Noise Magazine Issue #19!

 

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Iron Man “

Posted: August 10, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In her forthcoming LP Abyss (out Aug. 7th) these last three months, for singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe is slowly becoming one of the years most intriguing releases — and one that’s an follow-up to her 2013 breakout, “Pain Is Beauty”. She continues to entrance with the release of “Grey Days,”  see earlier post .

As with her fourth full-length’s previous releases — “Iron Moon,” “Carrion Flowers” and “After the Fall” and “Grey Days” utilizes its droning, gothic production to dissect the nocturnal mind’s innermost regions. Constructed around a looping drum kick and haunting viola by longtime Chelsea Wolfe collaborators Dylan Fujioka and Ezra Buchla, the track doesn’t bear the same pronounced aggression as the California-based musician’s other fare. More a sorrowful lullaby built on industrialized distortions and wispy, howling vocals, it’s just as captivating.

“For this album I was interested in the subconscious, or unconscious mind, approaching it like a warehouse full of memories and emotions to be confronted,” Wolfe has said, “The title [‘Grey Days’] came from a conversation with someone I met on the road who had been in prison. He called that time his ‘grey days.’ It’s about something holding you back.”

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“I’m drawn to the peace in feeling nothing, but I’m also afraid of feeling nothing,” Wolfe says of this dark dichotomy. It’s one seen throughout her body of work. “The song is a battle.”

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Grey Days “

Posted: August 9, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Chelsea Wolfe’s last record, Pain Is Beauty, eschewed the cavernous atmospheres and primal instrumentation of her most distinctive output for cold, calculated electronic hums more akin to a record by The Knife. But Abyss, however, serves as the perfect marriage between these two core characteristics of her aesthetic. Tracks like the harrowing “Grey Days” transmit Wolfe’s intimate lyrics through the record’s sonic hollows, gnarling bass and chilling, mutated cries echo and reverberate through Abyss’ massive scope. Wolfe’s music has always appreciated and nurtured the power of cinematic cues and moods to create compelling musical narratives (as evidenced by her vivid music videos, and 2014 Ingmar Bergman-esque short film Lone), and with Abyss, it’s clear that her music has been sized-up for maximum screen potential.

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The visceral personal details and graphic authenticity of the singer-songwriter are characteristics which Wolfe has been adopting more and more into her art as of late. Abyss marks an emotional lull in her career, acting as the tumultuous aftermath of Pain Is Beauty, channelling the viciousness of her early output, but feeling especially singular. As the odd-one-out in her catalogue, Abyss is Wolfe’s most emotionally direct, with unequivocal mourns for lost lovers summoning the titular abyss and beckoning its maw with each overcast delivery. Until finally, you are swallowed, and subjected to the nightmare Wolfe describes in “Simple Death”, where you are screaming, but you can’t wake up.

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Carrion Flowers “

Posted: June 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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The track “Carrion Flowers” from the forthcoming Chelsea Wolfe album tiltled “Abyss,” out on August 7th, 2015 on Sargent House Records.

She’s the reigning dark priestess of goth-scarred art rock, romanticizing “Grey Days” and “Simple Death” in hazy, haunting songs that span grinding industrial, sparse folk, doomy metal and droning noise. It’s foreboding stuff Queens of the Stone Age took her out on tour and the producers of Game of Thrones chose a track of hers 2013’s “Feral Love”) for the series’ Season Four trailers. Wolfe’s latest record, Abyss, is her most intense and dynamic yet. “We’ve been touring a lot for the past few years so I think naturally I had it in my head that I wanted my new album to have songs that would translate well live,” she says. “And what I was writing about was really heavy, so even the more subdued songs have that feeling to them.”

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She Says: The album’s heavy subject matter includes Chelsea Wolfe’s lifelong struggle with sleep paralysis, a phenomenon in which a person is unable to move or speak while passing between wakefulness and slumber; it’s often accompanied by a sensation of bodily pressure or choking, as well as terrifying hallucinations. “I’ve always had sleep and dream issues, since I was a kid,” Wolfe says. “I’ve dealt with sleep paralysis for a long time and recently starting talking about it with other people, comparing experiences. I didn’t set out to channel it into the music, it’s just, I think having that connection to an in-between state for so many years started creeping into the way I wrote about things — sometimes the anxiety or strangeness of it would follow me into my day.”

Wolfe strings gossamer vocals over metal-on-metal scraping and piston-pumping percussion on Abyss’ unnerving yet strangely seductive opener “Carrion Flowers.”  Thanks to Rolling Stone magazine,

 

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Iron Moon “

Posted: April 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Chelsea Wolfe has revealed the release date (August 7th) and doom-y lead single of her fifth album “Abyss”. Streaming below, “Iron Moon” was the last song written for the record and inspired by the poetry of a Foxconn worker who committed suicide.

“There’s a blurry confusion throughout the lyrics on the album,” Wolfe said, “as it sometimes is in dreams, like you’re new to the afterlife and things are slightly different, more hazy and fluid. I imagine the quiet parts of the song sung from a small, dorm-style room, and the loud parts as a scene out of a musical, where the worker sings and dances through the factory lines with total freedom and abandon.”

According to a press release, Abyss faces Wolfe’s longtime struggle with sleep paralysis head-on, with a sound that imagines a “hazy afterlife… an inverted thunderstorm… the dark backward… the abyss of time.”

“[It’s] meant to have the feeling of when you’re dreaming,” she added, “and you briefly wake up, but then fall back asleep into the same dream, diving quickly into your own subconscious.”

Helping Wolfe along the way are longtime multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm and drummer Dylan Fujioka, along with violist Ezra Buchla and guitarist Mike Sullivan (also of Russian Circles).

Chelsea Wolfe - 'Abyss' album cover