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Pitchfork Advance full album stream: Chelsea Wolfe “Pain Is Beauty”
Chelsea Wolfe’s new album Pain Is Beauty is out next week, September 3rd via Sargent House. The follow-up to last year’s Unknown Rooms is available to stream here in full via Pitchfork Advance.
Pre-Order the album on CD or Vinyl HERE
CHELSEA WOLFE ON TOUR NOW SEE ALL DATES
Pitchfork Album Review: Chelsea Wolfe “Pain Is Beauty”
The slightest decision can haunt an artist. This much is true of Chelsea Wolfe, an L.A. singer-songwriter whose records have synthesized doom folk, wasteland noise, and noirish experimentation. Wolfe’s 2010 cover of “Black Spell of Destruction” by black metal outfit Burzum may follow her forever. Her own music, though difficult to categorize, shares something essential with that genre. It’s austere and atmospheric, expressed with the reverb through which Wolfe often pushes her voice; she’s opened for extreme bands like Sunn O))), Boris, and Swans and has cited Gorgoroth’s “Of Ice and Movement” as a treasured song. Shortly after the Burzum cover came another one that’s gained less traction on the web: a surreal, pitch-shifted take on the 1997 Notorious B.I.G. classic “Hypnotize”, found on a collection of rap covers from Ben Chisholm’s ghostly White Horse project. Chisholm also happens to be Wolfe’s bassist and co-producer on Pain Is Beauty, her best and most emotionally direct work yet.
Chelsea Wolfe releases The Waves Have Come, Starts European Tour on July 25th
Earlier this year, Chelsea Wolfe shared an intense video for her Pain Is Beauty track “Feral Love”, which was an excerpt from a 52-minute film called Lone. Wolfe co-wrote the film with director Mark Pellington, who did Pearl Jam’s iconic “Jeremy” video and clips for Michael Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, U2, and others, plus the films Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, and more.
Today, she’s shared another excerpt from that movie, this time a video for the track “The Waves Have Come”. Watch it below, via V Magazine.
In a statement, Wolfe said of the video:
“Most of this video is footage from the first time Mark and I shot together—he had built this dark room full of green ivy and it was just me, the dress from the album cover, a few lights, and him. It was the first time I realized what a director really is. Suddenly he was shouting, guiding me with instructions, emotions, telling me to act as if everything I was singing about—disaster and the loss of life and love—that it was all inside of me and at the same time to act as an observer of these things. He cut it together with found footage of families, intense nature and destruction and created this cathartic journey through it all.”
Lone is available now on a USB drive and will be out digitally this fall. Below the video, find Wolfe’s upcoming tour dates, including a few shows co-headlining with Deafheaven.
Chelsea Wolfe on Tour 2014:
07-25 Barcelos, Portugal - Milhões de Festa
07-29 Toulouse, France - Le Métronum
07-30 Milano, Italy - Magnolia
07-31 Munich, Germany - Feierwerk
08-02 Katowice, Poland - OFF Festival
08-03 Dresden, Germany - Beatpol *
08-04 Vienna, Austria - Arena Wien *
08-05 Sibenik, Croatia - SuperUho Festival
08-07 Budapest, Hungary - A38
08-09 Copenhagen, Denmark - Wasn’t Born to Follow Festival
08-10 Hannover, Germany - Cafe Glocksee
08-12 Amsterdam, Netherlands - MelkWeg
08-13 Brussels, Belgium - Le Brass
08-14 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Congés Annulés
08-15 London, England - ATP Presents - Excel Centre (Jabberwocky)
08-16 Manchester, England - ATP Presents - Gorilla *
11-08 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
* with Deafheaven
NPR First Listen: Chelsea Wolfe “The Warden”
Chelsea Wolfe has a surreal voice that cuts through her foggy, soulful, often haunting rock and folk music. There’s a thorny vision of yearning, heartbreak and death in Wolfe’s songs that’s striking, yet always brings us back to what makes these bleak themes so appealing, even beautiful. When I heard that Wolfe would “go electronic” for the forthcoming Pain Is Beauty, it was no shock; after all, synths and noise had been part of her textures all along. But with “The Warden,” Wolfe has taken the fog to the club.
Rhapsody Presents: Chelsea Wolfe “We Hit A Wall” live from Sonos Studio
Chelsea Wolfe performs a special rendition of “We Hit a Wall” from her new album Pain Is Beauty that is out today, September 3, 2013 on Sargent House. Video shot live from Sonos Studio courtesy of Rhapsody Music.
Get Chelsea Wolfe’s Pain Is Beauty on VINYL or CD HERE
or on Itunes
CHELSEA WOLFE IS ON TOUR NOW SEE ALL DATES HERE
New York Times Album Review: Chelsea Wolfe “Pain Is Beauty”
CHELSEA WOLFE
“Pain Is Beauty”
(Sargent House)
A shudder of emotional torment, poised between a swoon and a sob, resides in the voice of Chelsea Wolfe, and the ambiguity feels custom fitted to the music. “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.
Chelsea Wolfe releases video for Kings on One Year Anniversary of Pain Is Beauty & 3 day Sale
And check out her new video for the song Kings below.
La Blogotheque A Take Away Show: Chelsea Wolfe performs Lone & House of Metal
Watch Chelsea Wolfe performing acoustic versions of two of her new songs, ‘Lone’ and 'House of Metal’ from the album Pain Is Beauty for La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows in Paris.
Chelsea Wolfe will be performing on November 19th in Los Angeles at UCLA’s Royce Hall with special guest Anna Calvi. Get Info/Tix here