New Music Albums: THE DARK (Chelsea Wolfe)

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Artist:
Chelsea Wolfe

Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock

Total Time:
40:31

Record Label:
Loma Vista Recordings

Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
August 21, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: On her eighth album, 2024’s She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She, Chelsea Wolfe recruited TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek for a largely electronic exploration of her recent sobriety. For its follow-up, The Dark (a title California’s reigning goth-folk maven had somehow not used before), the singer-songwriter found herself drawn back to a slow-burning rock sound.

With producer Jennifer Decilveo and longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm, Wolfe built the songs of her ninth album from bare-bones acoustic guitar and piano sketches that occasionally evolve into epic goth-rock rippers. (See “Seethe,” a slice of driving ’80s rock, or the head-banging “Swallower,” with its howling vocals and a solo from Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen.)

Elsewhere, Wolfe embraces a classically Californian folk sound with her own doomy twist: Evanescence meets Ultraviolence-era Lana on “Halo,” while “Death Is Not the End,” a mostly acoustic meditation on the afterlife until Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck unleashes a massive doom-metal outro. And on the title track, she honors the comforts of darkness—a fertile, earthy darkness in the deep woods where seeds can grow.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Cold (04:32)

2 . Seethe (03:17)

3 . Humours (03:54)

4 . Swallower (04:05)

5 . Halo (03:32)

6 . The Dark (03:33)

7 . Turn the Key (04:25)

8 . I’m Not There (04:16)

9 . eath Is Not The End (04:26)

10 .Dancer in the Sky (04:31)

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