Chelsea Wolfe‘s third offering this year is a stripped down acoustic take on tracks featured on her latest album “She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She“. This condensed set is described as ‘the final chapter of the ‘She Reaches Out‘ triptych’, and follows this past August’s “Undone” EP. That collection saw the likes of Crosses, Godflesh‘s Justin K Broadrick and more remixing songs originally found on the aforementioned album.
A press release elaborated further on this forthcoming conclusion to the trilogy of sorts:
‘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 center 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 skyclad—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.’
As was mentioned above, a cover of Spiritbox‘s “Cellar Door” closes out the EP. Wolfe previously debuted her rendition of that track from the Canadian alternative metallers via an in-studio session for BBC Radio 6 this past spring. Wolfe also joined the band onstage earlier this month.
“Unbound” track listing:
01 – “Whispers In The Echo Chamber” (Unbound)
02 – “Dusk” (Unbound)
03 – “The Liminal” (Unbound)
04 – “Place In The Sun” (Unbound)
05 – “Cellar Door” (Spiritbox cover)
Pre-orders are available through i.chelseawolfe.com/Unbound with a November 15th release through Loma Vista Recordings scheduled. A video co-directed by Wolfe & Christopher Leckie for the newly piano-led revised take on “Place In The Sun” has been shared below. As previously reported, Wolfe will embark on an acoustic headlining tour in December with Enhancement opening, those dates include:
12/04 Boston, MA – The Armory
12/06 New York, NY – The First Unitarian Church
12/07 Philadelphia, PA – The First Unitarian Church
12/09 Philadelphia, PA – The First Unitarian Church
12/11 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
12/12 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre
Ahead of that, the following European/UK tour with Mary Jane Dunphe has been booked:
10/25 Dublin, IRE – Button Factory
10/26 Belfast, IRE – Limelight 2
10/27 Glasgow, UK – Saint Luke’s
10/28 Manchester, UK – Academy 2
10/29 London, UK – KOKO
10/31 Leeds, UK – Irish Centre
11/01 Brighton, UK – Chalk
11/02 Bristol, UK – Marble Factory
11/03 Antwerp, BEL – Trix
11/05 Metz, FRA – La Bam
11/06 Zurich, SWI – Rote Fabrik
11/08 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz 2
11/09 Madrid, SPA – La Sala
11/10 Porto, POR – Ampliefest
11/12 Montpellier, FRA – Victorie 2
11/13 Milan, ITA – Circolo Magnolia
11/15 Ljubljana, SLO – Kino Siska
11/16 Budapest, HUN – A38
11/18 Athens, GRE – Gagarin 205 (no Mary Jane Dunphe)
