Acclaimed musician, songwriter, and multidisciplinary artist Chelsea Wolfe has announced that her 9th studio album, The Dark, out August 21 via Loma Vista Recordings. CD and vinyl editions will follow on September 18 – pre-order it here. The album announcement is accompanied by the release of its opening track and lead single “Cold”, a soaring, heartwrenching ballad whose chorus will haunt the listener long after first listen.
The Dark is an album imbued with mystery, symbolism, and solace. Drawing inspiration from the idea of entering the woods at the darkest point and becoming the thing you fear in order to feel more brave, Wolfe began writing with new cowriter Jennifer Decilveo alongside long term collaborator Ben Chisholm, intentionally stripping away the sonic layers to give deserved space to what would become the finest songwriting of her storied career.
Featuring Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam), Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens Of The Stone Age), Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), and Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, St Vincent) the album’s 10 tracks see Wolfe at the height of her powers, her voice buoyed by a newfound confidence. Each exquisite track feels like its own invocation – a calling down of forces, primordial, bone-shaking, self-altering.
Last month Wolfe reemerged from her cocoon with a flurry of announcements – as the face of a line of five bespoke perfumes by Heretic named ‘GHOSTS’, the double a-side single “The Dark / Death Is Not The End”
