![]() On Twin Fawn, Wolfe sings: you cut me open, you live inside/ you killed the wonder, nowhere to hide/ I held you sober, white smoke and low life/ A big pill to swallow, a mountain to climb, which is a long and complicated chorus made powerful by her grandiloquent delivery. My favorite songs on Hiss Spun are 16 Psyche, Twin Fawn and Scrape, three gloomy, charged and bombastic performances with memorable choruses. It operates within clear and somewhat narrow boundaries, yet it explores the space between with admirable drive and passion. There are black metal and shoegaze influence on several songs and even male death metal vocals on Vex, which pleasantly contrasts with her aerial soprano performance. ![]() It's just Wolfe and her guitar at the forefront, but there's a lot of layers and details to her performance. There's not much of a rhythm section on Hiss Spun. The slow, brooding guitar riffs that are louder than Chelsea Wolfe's voice in the majority of the songs. It's the most prominent sound on it and the only one you'll remember if you give the album only one listen. Hiss Spun is a heavy, guitar-driven gothic rock album. What it sometimes lack in vision, it compensates with power and reliability. Hiss Spun is not her most nuanced release, but it's eerie, crippling and remarkably immersive. You may not know her, but you've heard her pounding and ominous songs on shows like Game of Thrones and Fear the Walking Dead. For those who don't know, Chelsea Wolfe is an underground gothic rock artist that has taken the music industry by storm over the last five years. Not sure how it managed to split past me, to be honest. Californian singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe released a new album titled Hiss Spun on September 22nd.
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