CHELSEA WOLFE ANNOUNCES TOUR W/ RUSSIAN CIRCLES & HEADLINE DATES
Northern California native Chelsea Wolfe's sound is best described with broad strokes: elemental, intense, radiant, ancient yet modern, intimate yet expansive, dark and sparkling. Hues of black metal and deep blues inform her ever-evolving electric folk--a warm force that wraps itself around the listener, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice similarly haunts and soothes, with words that illuminate life's darker corners in order to reveal the unlikely truth and beauty hidden within.
In
a way, Wolfe is on a journey to the surface of her own music. 2012
finds releasing her first acoustic emanation on Sargent House, a
collection of once-orphaned songs given a home. The experience is a
secret shared, a side of our heroine rarely seen or heard, and the
making was as intimate as it gets: recorded in the woods of Northern
California and at Wolfe's L.A. home, co-produced by her bandmate Ben
Chisholm, with players Ezra Buchla of Gowns (viola), Andrea Calderón of
Corima (violin) and Daniel Denton of Gothic Tropic (bass).
In
2013, Wolfe will deliver her as-yet-untitled official third album,
which will expand upon the acoustic record's themes: the elements and
natural disasters, humanity, love, desolation. At the same time, the
new full-length will mark a significant change as Wolfe and Chisholm
(who makes glitched goth-soul as Revelator) bring more electronic
elements into the fold. Lars Stalfors (The Mars Volta, Marnie Stern)
will be on hand to produce the LP, which will also feature the other
members of Wolfe's live wrecking crew, guitarist Kevin Dockter and
drummer Dylan Fujioka.
Disparate
as these two developments are, they perfectly embody Wolfe's growth as
an artist -- the inside turning outward, her recent European outing and
August U.S. tour with Russian Circles providing an apt contrast to her
more cloistered childhood. Her rare romanticism began early, but it was
always a private affair. At 9, she'd watch her father playing country
music and sneak into his home studio to record skewed keyboard covers
(The Never-Ending Story theme was a favorite) and originals.
Wolfe
long lacked the confidence to share her work, but in 2009 she embarked
on a three-month stint abroad with a nomadic performance troupe. After
performing in cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants to whoever
would listen, she returned home with a new drive. She began toting
around an 8-track and recording as the mood hit, eventually editing her
findings into 2010's stunner LP, The Grime & the Glow. Described as both healing and harrowing, enchanting and narcotic, the album established Wolfe as a force on the rise.
Inspired, Wolfe then relocated to Los Angeles and recorded her second album, 2011's Apokalypsis LP, which
found her in an actual studio. The songs captured therein maintained
the strikingly visceral elements of her debut. Praise came for the
record's revelatory dirges and cavernous sound, and moreover for
Wolfe's newly showcased songwriting chops. Her onward march through
music only seems to deepen the experience. Whether stripped bare or
fully backed, Wolfe carries a serious heaviness of sound offset by that
ever-present counterweight: transcendence of spirit.
WATCH "FLATLANDS" HERE
STREAM "FLATLANDS" HERE
TOUR DATES
06/29 - Los Angeles, CA - The El-Rey %08/06 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club !08/07 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird !08/08 - Louisville, KY - The Veron Club !08/09 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree !08/10 - Tallahassee, FL - Retrofit !08/11 - Orlando, FL - Will's Pub !08/12 - Tampa, FL - State !08/13 - Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbits !08/14 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl !08/15 - Carraboro, NC - Cat's Cradle !08/16 - Washington, DC - Rock n Roll Hotel !08/17 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer !08/18 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom !08/19 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East !08/20 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore !08/21 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace !08/22 - Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme !08/23 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall !08/24 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock !9/5 - Sacramento at Blue Lamp
9/7 - Portland at Ted's - Musicfest NW $9/8 - Vancouver - Biltmore $9/9 - Seattle - Barboza $9/12 - San Francisco - Rickshaw Stop $9/14 - Los Angeles - The Echo $% = w/ Russian Circles, And So I Watch From Afar & Deafheaven! = w/ Russian Circles$ = w/ Crypts
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