It might seem a little counterintuitive for Los Angeles-based goth queen Chelsea Wolfe to release her magnificently weighty new LP, Abyss, at the height of the dog days of summer (it’s out August 7 via Sargent House). Undaunted by the heat and sunshine, over the past several months she’s been dropping bitter, excellent tastes of an album that wallows even further in the darkness of 2011’s Apokalypsis and her 2010 debut, The Grime and the Glow. Today she’s shared another, “After the Fall,” a bleeding-edge piano dirge that blooms into her haunting, shapeless wails. Listen to it here.
Chelsea Wolfe tour dates:
August 27 – Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar +
August 28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge +
August 29 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater #
August 31 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club #
September 1 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall #
September 2 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #
September 3 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
September 4 – Montreal, QC @ Theater Fairmont
September 5 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair #
September 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #
September 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts #
September 11 – Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall #
September 12 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival #
September 14 – Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5 #
September 15 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge #
September 17 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks #
September 18 – Houston, TX @ Rudyards #
September 19 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk #
September 20 – Dallas, TX @ The Kessler #
September 22 – El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls #
September 23 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad #
September 24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
September 25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater #
September 26 – San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom at Regency Center #
September 28 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater #
September 29 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s *
September 30 – Vancouver, BC @ The Rickshaw *
October 2 – Bellingham, WA @ Shakedown
+ with Upsilon Acrux
# with Wovenhand
