Review: Chelsea Wolfe's Apokalypsis daunts the dawn of Revelation

Source: Pendu Sound Recordings
http://pendusound.com/releases/psr-0045/

Once you get past the demonic hissing, throaty squawks and white noise that opens Chelsea Wolfe’s Apokalypsis, this dungeon-dredged album only gets weirder. 

At one point during the song “Movie Screen,” it was like listening to a tea whistler going off in the kitchen while a dial-up modem failed to connect to AOL and an acid-dazed, computer-gaming nerd played the slowest game of Pong on Atari. 

Yet there is something entrancing about Wolfe’s contralto vocals chanting over the ambient, psychedelic goth-rock auxiliary that accompanies her haunting Gregorian incantations on songs like "The Wasteland."

Intrepid fiends of the macabre and experimental can catch the first listen of Apokalypsis in its entirety on NPR Music, which acquired the nearly 38-minute album 10 days before its release date. Pendu Sound Recordings is launching the record on August 23.

Take heed, I don’t recommend listening to Apokalypsis just before bed. (I’ll be sleeping with the lights on tonight.)

Sounds like: A malformation of Tori Amos, Jefferson Airplane and Philip Glass.
Recommended song: Tracks (Tall Bodies)

Read more on Chelsea Wolfe:

Album Review: Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis – Consequence of Sound

Chelsea Wolfe album streaming, she plays NYC Wednesday – Brooklyn Vegan

First Listen: Chelsea Wolfe, 'Apokalypsis' – NPR Music

Written by Priscilla Tasker