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CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Hiss Spun “

Posted: September 23, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Hello! My new album Hiss Spun is out today!

In a way, Hiss Spun is an album many years in the making. It’s a culmination of important people in my life, and a culmination of my musical influences and memories. It represents a certain kind of self-acceptance I’ve long strived for as an introverted, anxiety-riddled person. This album is about opening up and accepting the mess of yourself. There can be a strength in embracing your feral side, and it was fun to write some songs that were a lot more in-your-face and confrontational than I’ve done before.

The catalyst for this album was the reunion of my friend and drummer Jess Gowrie and I two and a half years ago. We had a rock band together back in Sacramento 10 years ago, and she taught me how to be a good front-person of a band and introduced me to a lot of the music that became very influential on me over the years. When I left that band to pursue my own project, it was difficult and we didn’t speak for 7 years, but when we reunited, it was clear that our musical chemistry was still there, strong as ever, so just as quickly as we became friends again, we started writing songs together again and her presence became an integral part of this new music and new era.

At my side for many years has been Ben Chisholm – multi-instrumentalist, composer, and another friend who has lent me much musical inspiration and given me strength when I wanted to shy away from the spotlight. Ben has worked with me as a co-writer and co-producer since Apokalypsis era, always recognizing that at the end of the day I follow my vision uncompromisingly.

Adding Troy Van Leeuwen’s singular guitar style to the twisted emotions of these songs was a welcome finishing touch, along with the ominous playing of Bryan Tulao.

Honesty in music has always been of grave importance to me, and this album is brutally honest. At times I’ve felt that my music is quite genderless, but many songs on Hiss Spun are very much from the perspective of a woman, confronting the chaos of the world with her own internal storm. There are stories of addiction, withdrawal, family history, lost love, instincts, cycles, and rage. Musically, I pushed my voice as far as I could, I sought out guitar tones that sounded like motorcycle engines, and specifically recorded with Kurt Ballou to capture the deep bass and pounding, energetic drums in the way he does so well.

There are repeated words throughout this album.. small words with big meanings: flux, hiss, welt, groan. Flux represents movement and flow, hiss is the positive life force, welt is the brutality of life, and groan represents sensuality and death. I’ve long had an affinity for white noise and there are moments on Hiss Spun dedicated to it, using sampled sounds from my own life as well as from history. Carl Sagan said that 1% of TV and radio static is relic sound from the Big Bang, and I find that strange connection to the origin both compelling and comforting.

Though this record can get dark, it can also be freeing. I hope you enjoy Hiss Spun. Thank you so much for your support and love.. I can feel it. And if you’ve gotten this far, thank you for reading!

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Chelsea Wolfe’s “16 Psyche” from the album “Hiss Spun”, out September 22nd, 2017 on Sargent House Records. Featuring: Troy Van Leeuwen on lead guitar.

CHELSEA WOLFE – ” Kings “

Posted: July 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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Thematically, Pain Is Beauty is said to be largely about idealistic love though Wolfe has also stated “It’s not a conceptual album. There’s a lot of different things it’s about: it’s about ancestry, it’s about nature, it’s about tormented love and sort of overcoming the odds. There’s a lot of different themes on this album.” According to Wolfe, the red dress she is wearing on the album cover represents the lava flowing from a volcano. Regarding the album title, Wolfe admitted, “…there’s always gonna be situations that we go through that are really hard and we just have to kind of be strong, and if we get through to the other side, then we become wiser people and our lives become more beautiful.  “Pain Is Beauty, her fourth album in three years, confirms her steadiness as a singer-songwriter of gothic intention, drawn to romantic fatalism and beautiful ruin.

Taken from the album “Pain Is Beauty” released September 3rd, Macabre Haunting and Beautiful, “Pain Is Beauty” is the fourth studio album from American singer-songwriter and eponymous band, Chelsea Wolfe released on September 3rd, 2013 through Sargent House Records

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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 – ” 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,

 

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