Following Chelsea Wolfe’s career often feels like one of those dreams where you’re trailing some playful, puckish figure who’s always rounding the next corner before you can fully glimpse them. A chameleonic, magpie-like approach has seen her mix and match from a wide range of sounds, freely drawing from folk, goth, industrial and avant-metal while casting ideas nonchalantly aside only to reintegrate them at later dates.
It’s fitting, then, for such a mercurial artist that She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She should deal with cycles of transformation and rebirth. Opener Whispers In The Echo Chamber has Chelsea proclaim ‘I’ve shed a thousand skins since then,’ and herein you’ll find evidence of her past lives, from the industrial-leaning lurk of 2015’s Abyss to more recent soundtrack work with composer (and Marilyn Manson collaborator) Tyler Bates.
