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  • Chelsea Wolfe 'Abyss' - Cargo Records UK

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    Available on limited light Blue Double Vinyl and CD.

    'Her darkest, heaviest and most personal album yet . . . a haunting, doomy exercise in loud-quiet dynamics.' Rolling Stone


    Sleep paralysis plagues singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work.

    Across the span of her first four albums, there is an underlying tension, a distorted and nebulous territory where dark shadows hover along the edges of the sublime and the graceful.

    But until now, Wolfe's trials and tribulations with the boundaries between dreams and reality have only been a subconscious influence on her work. With her fifth album, Abyss, she deliberately confronts those boundaries and crafts a score to that realm she describes as the 'hazy afterlife - ¦ an inverted thunderstorm - ¦ the dark backward - ¦ the abyss of time.'

    Chelsea Wolfe's material has always felt intensely private, from the almost voyeuristic bedroom-production aesthetic of her debut album The Grime and the Glow to the stark themes and atmospheres of 2013's Pain Is Beauty. 'Abyss is meant to have the feeling of when you're dreaming, and you briefly wake up, but then fall back asleep into the same dream, diving quickly into your own subconscious,' says Wolfe.

    To conjure this in-between world, Wolfe continued her ongoing collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and co-writer Ben Chisholm and drummer Dylan Fujioka, with Ezra Buchla brought on board to play viola and Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles) enlisted to contribute guitar. The ensemble traveled to Dallas, TX to record with producer John Congleton (Swans, St. Vincent).

    In the back of her mind burned the words of designer Yohji Yamamoto: "Perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.' The resulting eleven songs reflect that philosophy as they smoulder with human frailty, intimacy, quiet passion, anxiety, and deep longing. 'Sleep and dream issues have followed me my whole life,' remarks Wolfe as she revisits notes from the writing and recording sessions. In a way, these issues have become a part of Chelsea Wolfe's identity, for whom the notion of sleep as an escape has been subverted.

    Abyss captures this dichotomy, this battle between the soothing and the upsetting, and demonstrates why Chelsea Wolfe has become one of the most intriguing songwriters of the decade.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Carrion Flowers
    2. Iron Moon
    3. Dragged Out
    4. Maw
    5. Grey Days
    6. After the Fall
    7. Crazy Love
    8. Simple Death
    9. Survive
    10. Color of Blood
    11. The Abyss

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  • Chelsea Wolfe 'Pain Is Beauty' - Cargo Records UK

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    Chelsea Wolfe 'Pain Is Beauty'

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    Chelsea Wolfe 'Pain Is Beauty'

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    CD Digipak with 20 page booklet. Vinyl is  2LP in Gatefold jacket  + download card.

    Pain is Beauty is the third studio album from the Los Angeles-based artist and is a self-described love letter to nature. Many of the album's 12 tracks veer in a decidedly more electronic direction than previous recordings, while at the same time capitalizing on Wolfe's trademark penchant for the morose and otherworldly.

    As Wolfe explains: "[The album] becomes an exploration of ancestry, how the mythology, landscapes and traditions of our ancestors affect our personalities today. Honesty is what initially drew me to music, and I've been more honest and open with myself than ever through these songs.

    There is peace in truth. There is clarity in solitude. And there is power within simplicity and focus. Love is not always easy. Tormented love is something I understand more than society's skewed idea of what love should be. Love is indelible, severe, earnest, merciful. To push forward against the odds is to make history".  

    Chelsea Wolfe makes records that transcend time, avoid pigeonholing, and most importantly, allow a glimpse into the soul of a true visionary. Her work is free of the contrivances of lesser artists, the trivial "concepts" and pandering for attention at any cost. Hers is a dignified way of doing things, proven without any doubt by the sheer quality of her work.

    Pain is Beauty presents not so much an auditory experience as it does an encompassing atmosphere with which the listener can surround themselves, a soul-stirring link with infinity.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Feral Love
    2. We Hit A Wall
    3. House Of Metal
    4. The Warden
    5. Destruction Makes The World Burn Brighter
    6. Sick
    7. Kings
    8. Reins
    9. Ancestors, The Ancients
    10. They Clap When You're Done
    11. The Waves Have Come
    12. Lone

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