Chelsea Wolfe completes She Reaches Out triptych with Unbound EP out November 15th via Loma Vista
Chelsea Wolfe Completes She Reaches Out Triptych With Unbound EP, Out November 15th via Loma Vista
Watch the Video for “Place In The Sun (Unbound)”
Chelsea Wolfe, whose latest album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She “stretched gothic sounds and themes beyond the boundaries of genre” (New Yorker), announces the final chapter of the She Reaches Out triptych with a stripped down acoustic EP, Unbound, out November 15th via Loma Vista, and shares a video for “Place In The Sun (Unbound).” It follows Undone, a remix EP that “[tapped] into the dancier side of the darkness.” (FADER). In line with Unbound, Wolfe will play these laid-bare songs in a selected set of US cities this December.
In Chelsea Wolfe’s She Reaches Out triptych, three voices echo across time, weaving through past, present, and future. Her music becomes a journey of transformation, evolving with each passage while staying deeply rooted in its origin. Together, these three works form a cohesive tapestry spun from threads of memory, moment, and possibility. At the centre stands She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, grounded in the present. Next is Undone, which reimagines the dark landscapes of She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, reshaping each track into something at once familiar and profoundly new by artists like ††† (Crosses), Boy Harsher, Full of Hell, and more. While disintegrated and reformed, the songs still carry the essence of where they began.
On Unbound, Wolfe strips down songs from She Reaches Out to their raw essence - just her voice, a guitar, or piano - capturing vulnerability and unfiltered truth. The music here is primal, like earth freshly turned. The music stands exposed, stripped and sky clad - each track a rite of passage, a descent into the heart. In this stark landscape, the cover of Spiritbox’s “Cellar Door” concludes the EP, fitting seamlessly into the triptych's meditation on transformation and letting go.
Wolfe’s She Reaches Out triptych is a contemplation on the nature of change. It calls us to reach across time, to grasp the threads of what was and what could be, and to find strength in the act of becoming.
Portions of the above text are pulled from the Unbound EP bio by Matt Auryn.
Watch the Video for “Place In The Sun (Unbound)”
"A Place In The Sun (Unbound)" Video Still
Pre-order Unbound EP
UNBOUND EP Tracklist
1. Whispers In The Echo Chamber (Unbound)
2. Dusk (Unbound)
3. The Liminal (Unbound)
4. Place In The Sun (Unbound)
5. Cellar Door (Spiritbox Cover)
Stream/Purchase She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Stream/Purchase Undone EP
Chelsea Wolfe Tour Dates:
Fri. Oct. 25 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory [SOLD OUT] *
Sat. Oct. 26 - Belfast, UK @ Limelight 2 *
Sun. Oct. 27 - Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union *
Mon. Oct. 28 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy 2 *
Tue. Oct. 29 - London, UK @ Koko *
Thu. Oct. 31 - Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre *
Fri. Nov. 1 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk *
Sat. Nov. 2 - Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory *
Sun. Nov. 3 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix *
Tue. Nov. 5 - Metz, FR @ La Bam *
Wed. Nov. 6 - Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik *
Fri. Nov. 8 - Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz 2 *
Sat. Nov. 9 - Madrid, ES @ La Sala *
Sun. Nov. 10 - Porto, PT @ Amplifest *
Tue. Nov. 12 - Montpellier, FR @ Victoire 2 *
Wed. Nov. 13 - Milan, IT @ Circolo Magnolia *
Fri. Nov. 15 - Ljubljana, SI @ Kino Siska *
Sat. Nov. 16 - Budapest, HU @ A38 *
Mon. Nov. 18 - Athens, GR @ Gagarin 205
Wed. Dec. 4 - Somerville, MA @ Arts at The Armory (Unbound) #
Fri. Dec. 6 - Brooklyn, NY @ First Unitarian Church (Unbound) #
Sat. Dec. 7 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (Unbound) [SOLD OUT] #
Mon. Dec. 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church (Unbound) #
Wed. Dec. 11 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (Unbound) #
Thu. Dec. 12 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre (Unbound) #
* = support from Mary Jane Dunphe
# = support from Enhancement
Praise for Chelsea Wolfe & She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She:
Clash ★★★★
Dork ★★★★
Kerrang! ★★★★
The Line of Best Fit ★★★★
Loud & Quiet ★★★★
Record Collector ★★★★
Metal Hammer ★★★★
The Skinny ★★★★
“Dark-side singer-songwriter stretches herself on Dave Sitek-produced seventh album” – Mojo
"Wolfe isn't an artist to do things by halves and so it proves again with this red-raw confessional" - Prog
"Revelatory" - Rock Sound
“… her talent for a melodramatic melodic hook wins through on Tunnel Lights’ yearning torch-song noir” – Uncut
“On She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, Wolfe’s deliciously unapproachable chamber of noise and warm vocal incantations achieves new immediacy” — New Yorker
"She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She yields to hair-in-the-wind havoc with distorted layers of guitar, drum pads, electronics, and piano, a more confident blend of Wolfe’s metal melancholy.” — Pitchfork
“So transporting and cathartic. If every window in your house is not shaking when you have this on, you clearly don't have it loud enough." — NPR Music
“The goth crooner Chelsea Wolfe conjures a thick atmosphere on ‘Dusk,’ … centred around a slow, methodical beat, murky guitar chords and Wolfe’s breathy, eerie voice.” — New York Times
"On She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, she makes her long-awaited ambush, sublimating all the sinister sounds she’s mastered thus far (lo-fi folk, doom metal, noise rock, gothic pop, experimental electronic) into a career-spanning magnum opus.” — Bandcamp
"Chelsea really sounds at home [on She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She] as soundscapes swirl intoxicatingly around her voice.” — Brooklyn Vegan, Indie Basement: Best Albums of 2024 So Far
“She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She is a gorgeous collection of ambient, gothic, and industrial soundscapes all enhanced by Wolfe’s ethereal vocals” — Consequence, 20 Best Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2024 (So Far)
“The most immense record so far that Chelsea has delivered to us.” — The Needle Drop, My Favourite Albums of 2024 So Far
"The allure of She Reaches Out is in how it captures our liminal moments where we wrestle with self-reflection and self-evolution after pivotal life events. Wolfe depicts all 10 dark tales with a shapeshifting beauty and menace.” — FLOOD, The Best Albums of 2024 (So Far)
“[Chelsea Wolfe] holds an extraordinary dynamic power in the space between hope and despair.” — Paste, The 25 Best Albums of 2024 So Far
"[She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She is] a career best, rich in atmosphere and depth, stripping away the noise in favour of something that feels simultaneously more intimate and vast.” — Treble, Best Albums of 2024 So Far
"Wolfe took the strongest elements of her gothic-metal background and contorted them towards a bold path forward, via trip-hop twitchiness and goosebump-inducing ASMR whispering.” — Revolver, 20 Best Albums of 2024 So Far