After an extensive opening stint with Norway's foremost neo-folk traditionalists Wardruna on their North American tour last fall, Chelsea Wolfe has not rested. Instead, in the ensuing months she has co-launched the GHOSTS perfume line with Heretic Parfum, released two new songs and accompanying videos, attended Paris Fashion Week for the premiere of this year's line for Ann Demeulemeester, and completed a new forthcoming album for Loma Vista, simply titled, "The Dark". In the years following overcoming alcohol addiction, her world has branched out to become a series of aesthetic and conceptual associations which Revolver Magazine's Favorite Shit feature discussed in their abundance, "Archery, Oracle Cards, Cape Dresses, Perfume, Couture and More". This succession of overarching points have also been reflected in the trajectory of her music, taking in styles and genre tangents which enfold a hybridization of gothic rock, blues, folk, doom metal and even recently, electronic subgenres, making for a music of what The New Yorker called her "Eclectic Hauntings". Along the course of which, the songwriter has "Embracing Her Inner Wisdom", discovered new passions, and in her taking of a singular pathless path to her "Gothic Heart", forged a musical amalgamation of all of these forms as discussed with Numero in their "Who is Chelsea Wolfe, the Tabi-wearing Gothic Priestess?". This lengthy peregrination brought her to 2024's album "She Reaches Out To She", wherein, "Chelsea Wolfe says Witchcraft and Sobriety Informed Her Album". The trajectory has brought her to a point in which she has become one of the notable neo-gothic modern voices of folk and blues traditions, making a hybrid and contemporary sound of her explorations of the yearning soul, existentialist thought, and a ritualistic kinship with the natural world. This month she "Casts a Spell with New Songs", featuring an impressive list of collaborators which include guitarist Robin Finck, and drummers Matt Chamberlain and Stella Mozgawa, alongside bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen. All of this on the eve of the forthcoming tour and album coming in the early fall, with multiple west coast dates in San Francisco, Salem and Portland Oregon, and a night at The Moore Theatre in Seattle.
