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1. Carrion Flowers/2. Iron Moon/3.Dragged Out/4.Maw/5.Grey Days/6. After The Fall/7.Crazy Love/8.Simple Death/9. Survive/10.Color Of Blood/11.Abyss

Release date: August 7, 2015
Sargent House

”Perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” (Yohji Yamamoto)

As ‘almost disappointing’ as 2014 was in terms of album releases, so mindblowing 2015 is turning out to be. ‘Abyss‘ is the second album in a few months that has such a powerful effect on me. I had to actually take a break of a few days between consecutive listenings of this album in order to try and neutralize its effect on me and escape from its addicting nature…but each time I came back with an increased emotional hunger to listen to it again.

The music up to ‘Abyss’

Chelsea Wolfe, a talented and emotionally rich singer songwriter from Sacramento California, has shaken the ”waters” of dark alternative music in 2010 with her album ‘The Grime And The Glow‘ which followed the rather acoustic album called ‘Mistake In Parting‘  that was self released in 2006. Since 2010 Chelsea Wolfe has released albums in Pendu Sound Recordings and since 2012 her albums have been released by Sargent House. In 2013 Chelsea Wolfe collaborated with King Dude releasing 2 EPs called ‘Sing Songs Together‘ and ‘Sing More Songs Together‘. Her album ‘Pain Is Beauty‘ has attracted the attention of an increasing audience in Europe and was praised as her most crystallized album of her career up to that point .

“I was so struck by that visual: the drop into the abyss of one’s own mind, allowing yourself to feel things you’ve hidden away, bringing them front and center. That became the goal of this album…hazy afterlife…an inverted thunderstorm . . . the dark backward . . . the abyss of time.” (Chelsea Wolfe about ‘Abyss‘)

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