Chelsea Wolfe has announced her new album: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She is out February 9 via Loma Vista Recordings.

“It’s a record about the past self reaching out to the present self reaching out to the future self to summon change, growth, and guidance,” Wolfe said of her new album in a statement. “It’s a story of freeing yourself from situations and patterns that are holding you back in order to become self-empowered. It’s an invitation to step into your authenticity.”

Tracks:

01 Whispers in the Echo Chamber
02 House of Self-Undoing
03 Everything Turns Blue
04 Tunnel Lights
05 The Liminal
06 Eyes Like Nightshade
07 Salt
08 Unseen World
09 Place in the Sun
10 Dusk

Pre-order: https://bodega.lomavistarecordings.com/ ... lsea-wolfe

North America Tour dates: https://chelseawolfe.com/shows/

Video for single "Whispers in the Echo Chamber" is out now. I love everything about it, it reminds me of why I was drawn to her music and aesthetic initially; haunting but with a delicate mesmeric subtlety that carries danger and heaviness. Looking forward to the full album.

Oh that single was great! I did not know she was coming out with a new album, this is a nice surprise. I've ordered the ink in water vinyl.

Looking forward to this. She's been quiet for a while.

I have yet to hear anything she has done that I haven't totally loved. I will definitely check this one out. I always thought that it was such a travesty that boring, marginally talented artists like Taylor Swift get to be hugely rich and famous, while truely talented and visionary artists like Chelsea Wolfe remain relatively underground.

Same. Chelsea is the kind of artist that I didn't know I needed, before discovering her. I like everything she did so far, no matter if it's the acoustic/folk stuff, the more sludgy material or the industrial-tinged stuff. She always delivers.

Or the grimy, gothic-ish rock, the electronic/darkwave-ish/ethereal wave-ish songs, the punky riot grrrl-ish stuff in Mrs. Piss, even the alt singer-songwriter stuff on her first album that she's disowned but I think is still pretty good - she's explored a much wider palette of sounds than a lot of artists. This will definitely be one of my most anticipated albums of next year.

Happy release day!

Making my way through this now and loving it so far. One of my faves thus far is this moody, melancholic piece that hearkens back to Pain Is Beauty;

Not my kind of music, to be honest. One thing that always baffles me is how her music is supposedly "gothic rock, ethereal wave, darkwave, doom metal" while I can't really hear any of this. Don't mind me, of course.

Oh we're not minding you anything...hater

Still, it's a weird expectation to want an artist to conform to genre prescriptions when they've never claimed those things themselves. I suggest hearing her talk about her process and creation for some perspective, if you care at all.

It's a great thing that she's actually doing something undoubtedly unique and influential. I'm just annoyed that it's presented as "ethereal wave" and "darkwave" (which I absolutely love), but I can't connect with it and don't even hear any similarities with these styles. It's like if someone said: "Hey, heard you like death metal, here's some fresh Slipknot for you, it's the best death metal to come out recently".

I know she's not really claiming to make music in these genres, but it's definitely being presented in this way by the fans.

Shouldn't let fans influence your perception of anything.

I still have only heard the thing she did with Converge. Thanks for the reminder to try her other work.

Oh yeah - this is exactly the kind of stuff I like. Jarring, confrontational and beautiful in a weird way. Ethereal and odd vibe.

Much better than her last album, but I'm not sure I spent enough time with it. Every album seems so different from the other I knew that I wouldn't enjoy every album on the same level

There's just something kinda electrifying about it - this chilly vibe, a sort of gothic clime to it, some electronic sounds. But it doesn't wallow in its own gothiness to the point where it'd seem too lethargic, nor does it sound too poppy in the sort of way that would become tiresome. There's just this feeling created through the melding of sounds. It seems like very freeing art, very cathartic. A soulful quality. This as well as the new Madder Mortem give me the same vibe that way, albeit with different sonic tools.

This is her best record since Abyss, in my opinion. Loving it.

seems to be her best in a couple at least indeed

Dig a few of her songs, keen to see what she brings. That title tho ha

The thing is that she's not the type of person who likes to be put in a box, and for some of her music there aren't really any closer descriptors. She's played with quite a range of different sounds over the years, but the more common ones generally don't particularly adhere to conventions. Yet when categorizing her music for various sites or explaining it to others, it's not helpful to just tag it as "music", so some of those are the closest approximations for certain swathes of her work. It's like asking what kind of music Katatonia, Triptykon, Opeth, Devin Townsend and other genre-bending artists make, they mix too many different things together and change too much to have a simple and coherent answer.

After a dozen plays or so, the good thing about this is just how free and invigorated it all sounds. You hang on every note and the songs are strange and hit you where you live. Certainly gonna be one of the year's brightest moments musically.