After a spellbinding performance at The Cure’s Pasadena Daydream Festival this past weekend in LA, Chelsea Wolfe is just one week away from releasing her latest album “Birth of Violence”, via Sargent House, on September 13th.
“Birth of Violence” is a return to the reclusive nature of her earlier recordings where we see Wolfe withdraw into her own world of enigmatic and elusive autobiography. But the album also exists in the present, addressing modern tragedies such as school shootings and the poisoning of the planet.
On the song Wolfe tells us: “"Deranged for Rock & Roll" is my love song to music. Every time I ever tried to walk a different path, music always called me back home to it. It’s in my blood; it’s my one source of true peace. I love its chaos and its rough edges, and I love the way it can bring understanding and comfort. I belong to music, and it to me. I feel Gilbert’s video illustrates that unnamed pull towards something so well. My character is destined to sing the same song over and over in this purgatory of a desert bar, while different people come through the town and begin to feel the pull as well, drawing them into this vortex to stay for good”.
Video director Gilbert Trejo (Pixies, DIIV) says: “From the beginning we knew this video took place outside of society. The melody invokes compulsion, a certain type of purgatory, the inability to just buckle down and fly the straight path. Everyone’s purgatory exists side by side, and we affect one another without ever knowing”.
Pre-order “Birth of Violence” here.
Tracklist:
1. The Mother Road
2. American Darkness
3. Birth of Violence
4. Deranged for Rock & Roll
5. Be All Things
6. Erde
7. When Anger Turns to Honey
8. Dirt Universe
9. Little Grave
10. Preface to a Dream Play
11. Highway
12. The Storm
Wolfe will be embarking on a major North American tour this Autumn, stripping back the live show to perform her new songs (and old) in a more intimate light. All dates are listed below.
North American Acoustic Tour Dates 2019:
18/10: San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park
19/10: Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
21/10: Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall
22/10: Estes Park, CO - Stanley Hotel
24/10: Chicago, IL - Metro
25/10: Detroit, MI - Senate Theater
26/10: Toronto, ONT - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
27/10: Montreal, QC - Le National
29/10: Boston, MA - Royale
31/10: Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
01/11: New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel
03/11: Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
04/11: Charlotte, NC - McGlohon Theater
05/11: Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
06/11: Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
08/11: Dallas, TX - Texas Theatre
09/11: Austin, TX - Levitation
11/10: Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
12/11: Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
13/11: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
15/11: Los Angeles, CA - The Palace Theatre
16/11: San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
18/11: Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
20/11: Seattle, WA - The Showbox
21/11: Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
* (All dates with special guest Ioanna Gika)
Weblinks:
www.chelseawolfe.net
www.facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe
“Birth of Violence” is a return to the reclusive nature of her earlier recordings where we see Wolfe withdraw into her own world of enigmatic and elusive autobiography. But the album also exists in the present, addressing modern tragedies such as school shootings and the poisoning of the planet.
On the song Wolfe tells us: “"Deranged for Rock & Roll" is my love song to music. Every time I ever tried to walk a different path, music always called me back home to it. It’s in my blood; it’s my one source of true peace. I love its chaos and its rough edges, and I love the way it can bring understanding and comfort. I belong to music, and it to me. I feel Gilbert’s video illustrates that unnamed pull towards something so well. My character is destined to sing the same song over and over in this purgatory of a desert bar, while different people come through the town and begin to feel the pull as well, drawing them into this vortex to stay for good”.
Video director Gilbert Trejo (Pixies, DIIV) says: “From the beginning we knew this video took place outside of society. The melody invokes compulsion, a certain type of purgatory, the inability to just buckle down and fly the straight path. Everyone’s purgatory exists side by side, and we affect one another without ever knowing”.
Pre-order “Birth of Violence” here.
Tracklist:
1. The Mother Road
2. American Darkness
3. Birth of Violence
4. Deranged for Rock & Roll
5. Be All Things
6. Erde
7. When Anger Turns to Honey
8. Dirt Universe
9. Little Grave
10. Preface to a Dream Play
11. Highway
12. The Storm
Wolfe will be embarking on a major North American tour this Autumn, stripping back the live show to perform her new songs (and old) in a more intimate light. All dates are listed below.
North American Acoustic Tour Dates 2019:
18/10: San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park
19/10: Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
21/10: Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall
22/10: Estes Park, CO - Stanley Hotel
24/10: Chicago, IL - Metro
25/10: Detroit, MI - Senate Theater
26/10: Toronto, ONT - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
27/10: Montreal, QC - Le National
29/10: Boston, MA - Royale
31/10: Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
01/11: New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel
03/11: Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
04/11: Charlotte, NC - McGlohon Theater
05/11: Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
06/11: Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
08/11: Dallas, TX - Texas Theatre
09/11: Austin, TX - Levitation
11/10: Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
12/11: Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
13/11: Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
15/11: Los Angeles, CA - The Palace Theatre
16/11: San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
18/11: Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
20/11: Seattle, WA - The Showbox
21/11: Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
* (All dates with special guest Ioanna Gika)
Weblinks:
www.chelseawolfe.net
www.facebook.com/cchelseawwolfe