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"California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied light and dark. Her music is a raw, dirging doom-folk with hints of black metal, deepblues and minimal synthesizer music, but it’s as prone to triumph as it is despair. Her voice is both haunting and seemingly haunted, thoughwhether by angels or demons is unclear. And her lyrics reflect an obsession not only with life’s murkier moments, but the unlikely truths andbeauty they so often reveal. It makes sense then that her influences run from Nick Cave, Vladimir Vysotsky and Selda Bagcan to Ayn Randand Ingmar Bergman, and even more so that ...read more
"California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied light and dark. Her music is a raw, dirging doom-folk with hints of black metal, deepblues and minimal synthesizer music, but it’s as prone to triumph as it is despair. Her voice is both haunting and seemingly haunted, thoughwhether by angels or demons is unclear. And her lyrics reflect an obsession not only with life’s murkier moments, but the unlikely truths andbeauty they so often reveal. It makes sense then that her influences run from Nick Cave, Vladimir Vysotsky and Selda Bagcan to Ayn Randand Ingmar Bergman, and even more so that she hails from the wilder, woodsy northern part of her state. Wolfe’s hometown was a smallunspecified burg amidst the trees, idyllic by day and begging exploration, but forbidding once the fog crept in. Her skewed romanticismbegan early. At 9, she started sneaking into her father’s home studio to record warped covers and goth-R&B originals. But growing up, shenever shared her music. It wasn't until recently she considered making music for others to hear..
"After a stint abroad with a nomadic performance troupe playing cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants, Wolfe returned homeinspired. She began toting around an 8-track and recording as the mood hit, eventually winding up with the songs that would become herstunning 2010 debut, The Grime & the Glow. Described as both healing and harrowing, enchanting and narcotic, the album established Wolfeas an elemental force on the rise. Just as telling were a pair of cover songs — the timeless “You Are My Sunshine” and a deep cut fromNorwegian metal icon Burzum — that in her capable hands managed to sound equally burnt and terrifying. Drawn to Los Angeles’ unique mixof gloss and grit, she moved to the city late last year and recorded her second album, Ἀποκάλυψις (pronounced “apokalypsis”), out on PenduSound Recordings in 2011. Most recently, Chelsea Wolfe’s name exploded in the music world after pop artist Richard Phillips used her song“Moses” in his newest art-film starring Sasha Grey which premiered at the Venice Biennale in June of this year..
-Chris Martins (Spin/LA Weekly/Aural Standards) « hide |
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