Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun Song by Song Review
Chelsea Wolfe'south profile has continued to rising, navigating her edgy and adventurous songwriting to a boundless apex of startling inventiveness and emotional resonance. 2015's harrowing Completeness album increased Wolfe's recognition on a wider scale in a stunning turn of events, bolstering an already impressive trunk of work. Crippling in its emotional power, challenging but strangely addicting, Completeness also found Wolfe embracing her metallic inclinations in exciting, multi-faceted ways. With expectations sky high later on the mesmerizing Abyss, Wolfe returns with her highly predictable sixth opus, Hiss Spun. Ane of Chelsea Wolfe's cardinal strengths as an artist lies in her ability to continually evolve and reinvent herself. Familiar strands tie her works together, but she is not in the game of repeating herself, as Hiss Spun firmly attests. Hiss Spun finds Wolfe embracing doom wholeheartedly, pushing back the much stronger industrial and electronic overtones from Abyss, without abandoning these attributes, and shifting the thick wall of guitars and baloney upward front.
Wolfe's song-writing refuses to be pushed into a corner or get hindered past genre constraints. She cohesively blends her Gothic songbird style with elements of grungy, downbeat alternative rock, darkly ominous folk hymns, electronica, drone, industrial, and a prominent doom influence, spinning her eclectic musical tastes into a rich tapestry that bleeds emotion and makes an art of soft-loud dynamics. Wolfe remains a sorceress of conjuring upwardly a myriad of emotions in the listener. A simple melody or vocal tin can shift from delicate to fierce, vulnerability giving way to confidence and powerful self-assurance, anger to sadness, hostility to tenderness. While other singers may boast a stronger range, Wolfe'southward vocals are wonderfully expressive and unique, her subtle variations and raw emotion compensating for any range limitations. After the reedy, tiresome-burning thrum of "Spun," featuring captivating leads and an ominous tone, "16 Psyche" grinds away before anthemic guitars as an energy rise lifts the chorus into earworm levels of addictive heavy rock bliss. The song features Wolfe taking a more than accessible song-writing plough and comes across as reasonably uplifting by her melancholic standards, despite the dreary overall tone. Consistency has marked Wolfe's career, over the by few albums in item, and though Hiss Spun has its dizzying peaks, it never disengages or loses focus.
"Vex" skates along on an infectious drum vanquish and gripping song from Wolfe, earlier Aaron Turner's (Isis, Onetime Man Gloom) deep roar raises the intensity and hits with surprising effectiveness. Wolfe'due south music may exist blanketed in darkness and melancholy, simply Hiss Spun has a few lighter touches and is both cathartic and addictive, rather than a depressing listening experience. A stiff front-half notwithstanding, Hiss Spun really excels during a cluster of songs around its potent midsection. Part industrial drone, function doomy stone beast, with tension raising tranquillity segments floating in-between, "The Culling" is an exquisite jam that'due south hard to shake. Similarly, "Twin Fawn" features sparse, spine-tingling verses before unleashing the surging Female parent of all choruses, equally crushing guitars thunder in and shake the foundations. E'er 1 to keep the listener guessing, Wolfe changes gears expertly with the catchy darkwave of "Offering," showing her paw at crafting pop-infected gems in a similar fashion to her piece of work on 2013's Pain is Beauty album.
Not content to go out quietly, Wolfe saves the fantabulous "Scrape" for last, a song featuring called-for intensity and a truly wonderful vocal performance, Wolfe sounds volatile and desperate in well-nigh equal measure, swirling effectually pounding percussion and grinding guitars. Hiss Spun has a more organic sound compared to the harsher, in-your-face production on Abyss, creating a breathable and slightly more dynamic space. Wolfe's ghostly voice drifts effortlessly through the wall of distortion, constantly demanding attending beyond the dense, always interesting layers of the musical properties. The tone of the instruments is first-class, especially the fuzz-drenched, authoritative bluster of Wolfe and Troy Van Leeuwen's (A Perfect Circumvolve, Queens of the Stone Age, Failure) menacing guitars, retaining potent clarity and a tough, unvarnished grit.
Abyss was such a remarkable anthology that the simply slight I can actually aim against Hiss Spun is it doesn't quite outmatch its predecessor, despite coming very close. Regardless, Hiss Spun is yet another outstanding album from Wolfe; a challenging, securely emotive piece of art that too features some of her most accessible piece of work, cranking up the doom and rock-based factors without losing an ounce of her forrard-thinking progression, songwriting experimentation, and intelligent artistry that has divers her stellar career. There's no doubt in my mind, Hiss Spun is one of 2017'due south unmissable albums.
Rating: 4.five/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Sargent Business firm
Websites: chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe
Releases Worldwide: September 22nd, 2017
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