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She continues to push boundaries with each album release, collaborating with talented musicians like *Emma Ruth Rundle* and exploring new sonic territories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"abyss-3","title":"Abyss","description":"\u003cp\u003eSleep paralysis plagues singer\/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work. Across the span of her first four albums, there is an underlying tension, a distorted and nebulous territory where dark shadows hover along the edges of the sublime and the graceful. But until now, Wolfe's trials and tribulations with the boundaries between dreams and reality have only been a subconscious influence on her work. With her fifth album, Abyss, she deliberately confronts those boundaries and crafts a score to that realm she describes as the \"hazy afterlife... an inverted thunderstorm... the dark backward... the abyss of time.\" Chelsea Wolfe's material has always felt intensely private, from the almost voyeuristic bedroom-production aesthetic of her debut album The Grime and the Glow to the stark themes and atmospheres of 2013's Pain Is Beauty. \"Abyss is meant to have the feeling of when you're dreaming, and you briefly wake up, but then fall back asleep into the same dream, diving quickly into your own subconscious,\" says Wolfe. To conjure this in-between world, Wolfe continued her ongoing collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and co-writer Ben Chisholm and drummer Dylan Fujioka, with Ezra Buchla brought on board to play viola and Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles) enlisted to contribute guitar. The ensemble traveled to Dallas, TX to record with producer John Congleton (Swans, St. Vincent). In the back of her mind burned the words of designer Yohji Yamamoto: \"Perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.\" The resulting eleven songs reflect that philosophy as they smoulder with human frailty, intimacy, quiet passion, anxiety, and deep longing. \"Sleep and dream issues have followed me my whole life,\" remarks Wolfe as she revisits notes from the writing and recording sessions. In a way, these issues have become a part of Chelsea Wolfe's identity, for whom the notion of sleep as an escape has been subverted. Abyss captures this dichotomy, this battle between the soothing and the upsetting, and demonstrates why Chelsea Wolfe has become one of the most intriguing songwriters of the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sargent House","offers":[{"title":"Clear LPx2","offer_id":50406333612363,"sku":"391354","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50406332858699,"sku":"391355","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Abyss_8e049ca4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726585444"},{"product_id":"hiss-spun","title":"Hiss Spun","description":"\u003cp\u003eChelsea Wolfe release \u003ci\u003eHiss Spun\u003c\/i\u003e, her sixth album. Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the album was conceived as an emotional purge, a means of coming to terms with the tumult of the outside world by exploring the complexities of one’s inner unrest. \u003ci\u003eHiss Spun\u003c\/i\u003e features prominent guitar contributions by Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age, Failure) throughout the album, and a guest spot from Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, SUMAC) on the song\u003ci\u003e Vex\u003c\/i\u003e. Digging beneath the mess of the world to find the beauty underneath is perhaps the most consistent theme in Chelsea Wolfe’s expansive discography—a theme that ties together her ceaseless explorations in unorthodox textures, haunting melodies, and mining the grandeur embedded within ugliness and pain. With her sixth official album \u003ci\u003eHiss Spun\u003c\/i\u003e, Wolfe adopts Miller’s quest to become empowered by embracing the mess of the self, to control the tumult of the soul in hopes of reigning in the chaos of the world around us. \u003ci\u003eHiss Spun\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded by Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts at the tail end of winter 2017 against a backdrop of deathly quiet snow-blanketed streets and the hissing radiators of warm interiors. While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (\u003ci\u003eThe Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (\u003ci\u003ePain Is Beauty, Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e), Wolfe’s latest offering wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion. It’s an album that inadvertently drew part of its aura from the cold white of the New England winter, though the flesh-and-bone of the material was culled from upheavals in Wolfe’s personal life, and coming to terms with years of vulnerability, anger, self-destruction, and dark family history. Aside from adding low-end heft with gratuitous slabs of fuzz bass, long-time collaborator Ben Chisholm contributed harrowing swaths of sound collages from sources surrounding the artist and her band in recent years—the rumble of street construction at a tour stop in Prague, the howl of a coyote outside Wolfe’s rural house in California, the scrape of machinery on the floor of a warehouse at a down-and-out friend’s workplace. Music is rendered out of dissonance—bomb blasts from the Enola Gay, the shriek of primates, the fluttering pages of a Walt Whitman book are manipulated and seamlessly integrated into the feral and forlorn songs of \u003ci\u003eHiss Spun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - With custom etching on side D and Download Card. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Digipak with lyric insert.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sargent House","offers":[{"title":"Red LPx2","offer_id":50417067098443,"sku":"2194142","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LPx2","offer_id":50417066312011,"sku":"1014265","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417066705227,"sku":"1014264","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2b228d99-e53f-4e15-aac4-134b6c7ce697_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726715605"},{"product_id":"chelsea-wolfe","title":"Birth Of Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eChelsea Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of forms, her gift as a songwriter is never more apparent than when she strips her songs down to a few key components. As a result, her solemn majesty and ominous elegance are more potent than ever on Birth of Violence. There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. Her latest album, Birth of Violence, is a return to the reclusive nature of her earlier recordings. The songs stem from humble beginnings little more than Wolfe’s voice and her Taylor acoustic guitar. Her longtime musical collaborator Ben Chisholm recorded the songs on a makeshift studio and helped fill them out with his modern production treatments and the occasional auxiliary flourish from ongoing contributors Jess Gowrie (drums) and Ezra Buchla (viola). “These songs came to me in a whirlwind and I knew I needed to record them soon, and also really needed a break from the road,” Wolfe says. “I’ve spent the past few years looking for the feeling of home; looking for places that felt like home. 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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. Originally hailing from Northern California, Wolfe's formative years were spent tinkering in her country musician father's home studio, however, she long lacked the confidence to share her work. Then, in 2009, an overseas excursion as part of a nomadic performance troupe ignited her passion for performing and initiated a renewed interest in writing and recording. After performing in cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants to whoever would listen, she returned home with a new drive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe began toting around an 8-track and recording as the mood hit, eventually editing her findings into a breathtaking debut album, 2010's The Grime \u0026amp; the Glow. 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