{"id":2054938,"date":"2026-07-21T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2054938"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:00:34","slug":"chelsea-wolfe-talks-new-album-the-dark-i-needed-to-go-through-some-difficult-times-to-stop-self-abandoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2054938","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Wolfe talks new album \u2018The Dark\u2019: \u201cI needed to go through some difficult times to stop self-abandoning\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea_wolfe_1_magdalena_wosinska.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Chelsea Wolfe talks new album \u2018The Dark\u2019: \u201cI needed to go through some difficult times to stop self-abandoning\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Californian cult favourite tells NME why her newly-announced ninth album pays homage to the \u201cgothic heart\u201d of her artistry, the \u201cdeeper work\u201d that followed her sobriety, reuniting with a Queens Of The Stone Age member and learning to embrace the second half of her life<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Rishi Shah<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-21T15:00:34+01:00\">21st July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea_wolfe_1_magdalena_wosinska-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Chelsea Wolfe has spoken to <em>NME<\/em> about the period of personal upheaval that inspired her incoming ninth album \u2018The Dark\u2019, which she announced today (Tuesday July 21). Read on for our full interview below.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic Californian artist, who blends elements of folk, rock and doom metal with her haunting vocal delivery, has long been a respected figure within alternative music circles \u2013 having been previously remixed by Deftones side-project \u2020\u2020\u2020 (Crosses) and working with hardcore pioneers Converge. Launched with new single \u2018Cold\u2019, \u2018The Dark\u2019 follows 2024\u2019s industrial-tinged \u2018She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She\u2019 \u2013 and works as a move towards a bone bare-bone, delicate, slow-burning alt-rock sound.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Produced alongside Jennifer Decilveo and longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm, Wolfe told <em>NME<\/em> that her creative union with the former \u2013 who has written with Hozier and Miley Cyrus, helped unlock the direction of the album. Heading down from home in Northern California for LA sessions with Decilveo in short bursts, the initial seeds of an album in 2024 gradually began to unravel into what would become \u2018The Dark\u2019.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - Cold (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrqTW01HTas?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote together really quickly and easily, and I feel like we have a lot in common, being women of the same age in the music industry,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes, people treat studio time like a hangout, but I\u2019m not really that kind of person. For me, the hangout is the work, the creative session, so it was nice to be on the same page with her on that. How we were connecting and communicating was through the work itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe helped me define where I wanted to go with the record, because at first, I didn\u2019t know exactly what I wanted this record to sound like,\u201d Wolfe continued. \u201cBut once Jen asked the question straight-up, \u2018What do you want this record to be?\u2019, it [became clearer]. \u2018Let\u2019s go back to instruments, start songs on acoustic guitar or piano and vocals and build from there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Wolfe began teasing the album by simultaneously unveiling the spellbinding folk of the title track and \u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019, a song that jolts from bewitching, breathy vocals into her magnificent wails over a showering of \u201990s alt-rock atmosphere. Check out the rest of our interview below, where Wolfe unpacked the album\u2019s themes and revealed the high-profile guest who lent a hand to \u2018Swallower\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NME: Hi Chelsea. An acoustic-led sound is nothing totally new for you, but why did this more minimalistic approach come back around at this point in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea Wolfe:<\/strong> \u201cThe producer I ended up working with on \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019 [Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio], the direction he really wanted to go in was more electronic and trip-hop, and at that point in my life, I was like, \u2018Why not? Let\u2019s try something totally different\u2019. But with this one, I really felt strongly about there being a lot of guitar in this record. I don\u2019t necessarily see it as an acoustic album, because there are rock moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re right, \u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019 undergoes a massive transformation, dynamically. Was there an overall atmosphere you were trying to conjure up on the record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThematically, there\u2019s a lot of this feeling of reaching through the veil of life into death, life into the afterlife, and exploring what that would sound like. The s\u00e9ance of letting something go or losing something and reaching for it one more time, whether that\u2019s a literal death, a metaphorical ego death or a loss of a relationship. I wanted to portray that in these ups and downs, these liminal moments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019 is the perfect example, where it starts off really delicate and ghostly, you\u2019re in this very quiet in-between realm, and then it opens up into something, into the afterlife, into whatever it means for you. A lot of my filmic references were in that way; <em>What Dreams May Come, The Others<\/em>, these subtly haunted-feeling films.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - Death is Not the End (Official Visual)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1u3GCvJTo8?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Can you pinpoint any material examples or moments that helped you channel the sense of this in-between realm into the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother big theme of the album is letting go\u2026 being in my early 40s as a woman, growing older and wanting to be who I am now. I could see, as I was writing this, how much self-abandonment there had been in my life, how much I was prioritising the wants and needs of people around me or co-dependent relationships. I was putting a lot more energy into any of that than my own life or even my music, and I had this realisation that I was really self-abandoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was definitely a \u2018dark night of the soul\u2019 moment, which is where the album title really comes from, realising that I needed to go through some difficult times and conversations in order to stop self-abandoning. Some of that did include letting go of people in my life that I cared for \u2013 but I know that we\u2019re not healthy for each other \u2013 and parts of myself that I didn\u2019t identify with anymore. As we get older, we start to realise, \u2018Is this really me, or is this what people have been projecting onto me for so many years, that I\u2019ve taken it on as my own identity?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is that process still ongoing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever really a final destination when it comes to something like that. It\u2019s an ongoing process, re-evaluating and taking a look at your own life every once in a while. I was really writing about my own experiences in real time, and Jen was also encouraging me [to channel] what I was actually going through, realising that I had to let go of something or someone, and facing that by writing a song about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve spoken about facing up to your old drinking habits on \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019 and letting go of those parts of your former self. Did that process open the door for what you now confront on \u2018The Dark\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely. \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019,\u00a0 most of it was written right after I got sober, and there\u2019s this thing that a lot of people call the \u2018pink cloud\u2019 of that first year of sobriety, where everything feels very crystalline and beautiful because you\u2019re really clear-headed for the first time \u2013 in a really long time. A lot of that album was written from that place, where there\u2019s a fresh kind of confidence, owning my power, decisions and maybe naively feeling like I have it figured out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then this record is that realisation after the \u2018pink cloud\u2019 phase, you\u2019re really living the day-to-day of continuing to be sober and [realising], \u2018I have to keep going.\u2019 This record is a little bit more about the deeper work, the harrowing side of things and the second wave of work that I realised that I needed to do in my own life. That was really scary, because this wave involved stepping away from things and people that I actually loved, while the first wave was a little bit more like, \u2018This has been tormenting me for so long, I feel really free letting go of this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3958089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3958089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3958089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea_wolfe_2_magdalena_wosinska.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3958089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You ask \u201c<em>Who\u2019s this that I\u2019ve become now<\/em>?\u201d on \u2018The Dark\u2019. What stage of the process is that line trying to capture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about growing older and having that realisation that you\u2019re simultaneously changing\u2026 but it\u2019s not a repetition of the past,\u00a0 it\u2019s something totally new. It\u2019s about trying to meet myself where I\u2019m at now, and saying it\u2019s a glimpse of what\u2019s to come down the line. I am literally starting the second half of my life, and I\u2019m trying to be open to that and embrace where I\u2019m at now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The guitar solo on \u2018Swallower\u2019 has a massive Queens Of The Stone Age vibe\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that\u2019s Troy [Van Leeuwen, guitarist]!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You enlisted him for \u201816 Psyche\u2019 back in 2017. What drew you back to him for this song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine years\u2026 I didn\u2019t realise that, it\u2019s crazy. When we had him on \u201816 Psyche\u2019, I left a space for him to write a guitar solo and did the same thing with \u2018Swallower\u2019. It\u2019s one of the more rock moments on the record, it had this bridge that we were figuring out, and I was like, \u2018This is the perfect spot to give Troy another space to do his thing,\u2019 and he totally killed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s a lot of people connected to the record, from Nine Inch Nails associates Justin Medal-Johnsen and Robin Finck to Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa. At this point in your career, what guides you towards working with other people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more intuitive and exploratory\u2026 when I was younger, there was a lot more feeling like I had to say yes to every single collaboration. As I\u2019ve gotten older, that\u2019s gotten a little bit more like, \u2018Am I feeling connected to this song? Do I feel like I can add something to it, or is it me saying yes because I feel like I should?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Official Visual)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wm8gnjp01fY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve spoken before about your music generally containing more questions than answers, yet you make an uplifting declaration in \u2018The Dark\u2019: \u201cOur love glows in the darkness \/ In a world that feels so heartless \/ The light returns\u201d. Is that a key takeaway from the record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote a statement around the album to help myself define it, and said, \u2018I believe good things come from darkness, rest, dreams, whimsy, imagination, starlight. It gives space for the light to arrive\u2019. Obviously, this album is very much a love letter to the dark and the gothic heart of everything that I do as a musician. But on a song like this, I am expressing that the dark creates space for light to arrive, for seeds to grow and create something beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Dark\u2019 is released on August 21 via Loma Vista. Pre-order it here.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3958185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3958185\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3958185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea-album-new.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Wolfe announces new album &apos;The Dark&apos;\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3958185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Wolfe announces new album \u2018The Dark\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her upcoming tour dates are below, with Wolfe set to deliver the first live experience of new music at an intimate show at London\u2019s The Dome ahead of headlining ArcTanGent. Visit here<span> for tickets and more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUGUST<br \/>\n18 \u2013 London, UK \u2013 The Dome<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Bristol, UK \u2013 ArcTanGent Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>16 \u2013 San Francisco, CA, Curran Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>18 \u2013 Seattle, WA, The Moore Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>19 \u2013 Salem, OR, Elsinore Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Portland, OR, Roseland Theater\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>22 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT, The Union Event Center<\/strong><br \/><strong>24 \u2013 Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 Lawrence, KS, Liberty Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>26 \u2013 St. Paul, MN, The Fitzgerald Theater<\/strong><br \/><strong>28 \u2013 Chicago, IL, The Riviera Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>29 \u2013 Columbus, OH, The Bluestone<\/strong><br \/><strong>30 \u2013 Detroit, MI, Masonic Jack White Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>5 \u2013 Boston, MA, Boch Center Shubert Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>6 \u2013 New York, NY, The Town Hall\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>8 \u2013 Munhall, PA, Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>9 \u2013 Glenside, PA, Keswick Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>10 \u2013 Washington, DC, Sixth &amp; I\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>12 \u2013 Asheville, NC, The Orange Peel<\/strong><br \/><strong>13 \u2013 Atlanta, GA, Buckhead Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>14 \u2013 Nashville, TN, Marathon Music Works<\/strong><br \/><strong>16 \u2013 Dallas, TX, Texas Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>17 \u2013 Austin, TX, Emo\u2019s<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Tucson, AZ, Rialto Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>21 \u2013 El Cajon, CA, The Magnolia<\/strong><br \/><strong>23 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA, The Orpheum Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOVEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>21 \u2013 Utrecht, NL, TivoliVredenburg<\/strong><br \/><strong>23 \u2013 Berlin, DE, Admiralspalast\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>24 \u2013 Hamburg, DE, Gro\u00dfe Freiheit 36<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 Copenhagen, DK, Vega<\/strong><br \/><strong>27 \u2013 Oslo, NO, Betong<\/strong><br \/><strong>28 \u2013 Stockholm, SE, Vasateatern<\/strong><br \/><strong>30 \u2013 Tallinn, EE, Helitehas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>2 \u2013 Vilnius, LT, LOFTAS<\/strong><br \/><strong>3 \u2013 Warsaw, PL \u2013 Progresja\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>5 \u2013 Prague, CZ, ARCHA+<\/strong><br \/><strong>6 \u2013 Vienna, AT, Budocenter<\/strong><br \/><strong>7 \u2013 Budapest, HU, Akv\u00e1rium Klub<\/strong><br \/><strong>9 \u2013 Mannheim, DE, Capitol\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>11 \u2013 Fribourg, CH, Fri-Son<\/strong><br \/><strong>12 \u2013 Milan, IT, Live Club<\/strong><br \/><strong>13 \u2013 Munich, DE, Isarphilharmonie<\/strong><br \/><strong>15 \u2013 Antwerp, BE, Trix<\/strong><br \/><strong>16 \u2013 Paris, FR, Casino de Paris<\/strong><br \/><strong>19 \u2013 Athens, GR, FLOYD<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Chelsea Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Queens Of The Stone Age<\/li>\n<li>Warpaint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_89 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>You May Also Like<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span4 td-is-sticky\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-sidebar  tdi_92 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 tdi_93 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td-fix-index\">\n<p>Chelsea Wolfe has spoken to <em>NME<\/em> about the period of personal upheaval that inspired her incoming ninth album \u2018The Dark\u2019, which she announced today (Tuesday July 21). Read on for our full interview below.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic Californian artist, who blends elements of folk, rock and doom metal with her haunting vocal delivery, has long been a respected figure within alternative music circles \u2013 having been previously remixed by Deftones side-project \u2020\u2020\u2020 (Crosses) and working with hardcore pioneers Converge. Launched with new single \u2018Cold\u2019, \u2018The Dark\u2019 follows 2024\u2019s industrial-tinged \u2018She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She\u2019 \u2013 and works as a move towards a bone bare-bone, delicate, slow-burning alt-rock sound.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Produced alongside Jennifer Decilveo and longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm, Wolfe told <em>NME<\/em> that her creative union with the former \u2013 who has written with Hozier and Miley Cyrus, helped unlock the direction of the album. Heading down from home in Northern California for LA sessions with Decilveo in short bursts, the initial seeds of an album in 2024 gradually began to unravel into what would become \u2018The Dark\u2019.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - Cold (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrqTW01HTas?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote together really quickly and easily, and I feel like we have a lot in common, being women of the same age in the music industry,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes, people treat studio time like a hangout, but I\u2019m not really that kind of person. For me, the hangout is the work, the creative session, so it was nice to be on the same page with her on that. How we were connecting and communicating was through the work itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe helped me define where I wanted to go with the record, because at first, I didn\u2019t know exactly what I wanted this record to sound like,\u201d Wolfe continued. \u201cBut once Jen asked the question straight-up, \u2018What do you want this record to be?\u2019, it [became clearer]. \u2018Let\u2019s go back to instruments, start songs on acoustic guitar or piano and vocals and build from there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Wolfe began teasing the album by simultaneously unveiling the spellbinding folk of the title track and \u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019, a song that jolts from bewitching, breathy vocals into her magnificent wails over a showering of \u201990s alt-rock atmosphere. Check out the rest of our interview below, where Wolfe unpacked the album\u2019s themes and revealed the high-profile guest who lent a hand to \u2018Swallower\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NME: Hi Chelsea. An acoustic-led sound is nothing totally new for you, but why did this more minimalistic approach come back around at this point in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea Wolfe:<\/strong> \u201cThe producer I ended up working with on \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019 [Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio], the direction he really wanted to go in was more electronic and trip-hop, and at that point in my life, I was like, \u2018Why not? Let\u2019s try something totally different\u2019. But with this one, I really felt strongly about there being a lot of guitar in this record. I don\u2019t necessarily see it as an acoustic album, because there are rock moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re right, \u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019 undergoes a massive transformation, dynamically. Was there an overall atmosphere you were trying to conjure up on the record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThematically, there\u2019s a lot of this feeling of reaching through the veil of life into death, life into the afterlife, and exploring what that would sound like. The s\u00e9ance of letting something go or losing something and reaching for it one more time, whether that\u2019s a literal death, a metaphorical ego death or a loss of a relationship. I wanted to portray that in these ups and downs, these liminal moments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Death Is Not The End\u2019 is the perfect example, where it starts off really delicate and ghostly, you\u2019re in this very quiet in-between realm, and then it opens up into something, into the afterlife, into whatever it means for you. A lot of my filmic references were in that way; <em>What Dreams May Come, The Others<\/em>, these subtly haunted-feeling films.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - Death is Not the End (Official Visual)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1u3GCvJTo8?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Can you pinpoint any material examples or moments that helped you channel the sense of this in-between realm into the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother big theme of the album is letting go\u2026 being in my early 40s as a woman, growing older and wanting to be who I am now. I could see, as I was writing this, how much self-abandonment there had been in my life, how much I was prioritising the wants and needs of people around me or co-dependent relationships. I was putting a lot more energy into any of that than my own life or even my music, and I had this realisation that I was really self-abandoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was definitely a \u2018dark night of the soul\u2019 moment, which is where the album title really comes from, realising that I needed to go through some difficult times and conversations in order to stop self-abandoning. Some of that did include letting go of people in my life that I cared for \u2013 but I know that we\u2019re not healthy for each other \u2013 and parts of myself that I didn\u2019t identify with anymore. As we get older, we start to realise, \u2018Is this really me, or is this what people have been projecting onto me for so many years, that I\u2019ve taken it on as my own identity?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is that process still ongoing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever really a final destination when it comes to something like that. It\u2019s an ongoing process, re-evaluating and taking a look at your own life every once in a while. I was really writing about my own experiences in real time, and Jen was also encouraging me [to channel] what I was actually going through, realising that I had to let go of something or someone, and facing that by writing a song about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve spoken about facing up to your old drinking habits on \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019 and letting go of those parts of your former self. Did that process open the door for what you now confront on \u2018The Dark\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely. \u2018She Reaches Out\u2026\u2019,\u00a0 most of it was written right after I got sober, and there\u2019s this thing that a lot of people call the \u2018pink cloud\u2019 of that first year of sobriety, where everything feels very crystalline and beautiful because you\u2019re really clear-headed for the first time \u2013 in a really long time. A lot of that album was written from that place, where there\u2019s a fresh kind of confidence, owning my power, decisions and maybe naively feeling like I have it figured out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then this record is that realisation after the \u2018pink cloud\u2019 phase, you\u2019re really living the day-to-day of continuing to be sober and [realising], \u2018I have to keep going.\u2019 This record is a little bit more about the deeper work, the harrowing side of things and the second wave of work that I realised that I needed to do in my own life. That was really scary, because this wave involved stepping away from things and people that I actually loved, while the first wave was a little bit more like, \u2018This has been tormenting me for so long, I feel really free letting go of this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3958089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3958089\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3958089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea_wolfe_2_magdalena_wosinska.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3958089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Wolfe, 2026. Credit: Magdalena Wosinska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You ask \u201c<em>Who\u2019s this that I\u2019ve become now<\/em>?\u201d on \u2018The Dark\u2019. What stage of the process is that line trying to capture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about growing older and having that realisation that you\u2019re simultaneously changing\u2026 but it\u2019s not a repetition of the past,\u00a0 it\u2019s something totally new. It\u2019s about trying to meet myself where I\u2019m at now, and saying it\u2019s a glimpse of what\u2019s to come down the line. I am literally starting the second half of my life, and I\u2019m trying to be open to that and embrace where I\u2019m at now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The guitar solo on \u2018Swallower\u2019 has a massive Queens Of The Stone Age vibe\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that\u2019s Troy [Van Leeuwen, guitarist]!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You enlisted him for \u201816 Psyche\u2019 back in 2017. What drew you back to him for this song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNine years\u2026 I didn\u2019t realise that, it\u2019s crazy. When we had him on \u201816 Psyche\u2019, I left a space for him to write a guitar solo and did the same thing with \u2018Swallower\u2019. It\u2019s one of the more rock moments on the record, it had this bridge that we were figuring out, and I was like, \u2018This is the perfect spot to give Troy another space to do his thing,\u2019 and he totally killed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s a lot of people connected to the record, from Nine Inch Nails associates Justin Medal-Johnsen and Robin Finck to Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa. At this point in your career, what guides you towards working with other people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more intuitive and exploratory\u2026 when I was younger, there was a lot more feeling like I had to say yes to every single collaboration. As I\u2019ve gotten older, that\u2019s gotten a little bit more like, \u2018Am I feeling connected to this song? Do I feel like I can add something to it, or is it me saying yes because I feel like I should?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (Official Visual)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wm8gnjp01fY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve spoken before about your music generally containing more questions than answers, yet you make an uplifting declaration in \u2018The Dark\u2019: \u201cOur love glows in the darkness \/ In a world that feels so heartless \/ The light returns\u201d. Is that a key takeaway from the record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote a statement around the album to help myself define it, and said, \u2018I believe good things come from darkness, rest, dreams, whimsy, imagination, starlight. It gives space for the light to arrive\u2019. Obviously, this album is very much a love letter to the dark and the gothic heart of everything that I do as a musician. But on a song like this, I am expressing that the dark creates space for light to arrive, for seeds to grow and create something beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Dark\u2019 is released on August 21 via Loma Vista. Pre-order it here.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3958185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3958185\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3958185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chelsea-album-new.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea Wolfe announces new album &apos;The Dark&apos;\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3958185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Wolfe announces new album \u2018The Dark\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her upcoming tour dates are below, with Wolfe set to deliver the first live experience of new music at an intimate show at London\u2019s The Dome ahead of headlining ArcTanGent. Visit here<span> for tickets and more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUGUST<br \/>\n18 \u2013 London, UK \u2013 The Dome<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Bristol, UK \u2013 ArcTanGent Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>16 \u2013 San Francisco, CA, Curran Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>18 \u2013 Seattle, WA, The Moore Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>19 \u2013 Salem, OR, Elsinore Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Portland, OR, Roseland Theater\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>22 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT, The Union Event Center<\/strong><br \/><strong>24 \u2013 Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 Lawrence, KS, Liberty Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>26 \u2013 St. Paul, MN, The Fitzgerald Theater<\/strong><br \/><strong>28 \u2013 Chicago, IL, The Riviera Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>29 \u2013 Columbus, OH, The Bluestone<\/strong><br \/><strong>30 \u2013 Detroit, MI, Masonic Jack White Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>5 \u2013 Boston, MA, Boch Center Shubert Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>6 \u2013 New York, NY, The Town Hall\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>8 \u2013 Munhall, PA, Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>9 \u2013 Glenside, PA, Keswick Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>10 \u2013 Washington, DC, Sixth &amp; 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