Chelsea Wolfe says witchcraft and sobriety informed her latest album
Often in popular culture, witchcraft is associated with a kind of feminist reclamation of power and spite-fueled revenge
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often in popular culture, witchcraft is associated with a kind of feminist reclamation of power and spite-fueled revenge.
And although Chelsea Wolfe’s album out Friday is arguably her most spiritual yet, dripping with poetic lyricism about tarot, underworlds and bathing in blood, the process of making it has been marked by a time of healing, joy and relinquishing control.
“Over the years, as I’ve embraced a path of witchcraft and following the cycles of the seasons and the cycles of the moon, I put that into my writing process a lot, and I’ve started to share that more because this has been such a positive, wonderful thing in my life,” Wolfe explains.
Witchcraft’s influence has meant an increased attentiveness to letting each record “be what it wants to be,” the singer, songwriter and musician says — which can sometimes be overtly mystical, like pulling a tarot card for “clarity and guidance” on what she is about to write, or more ostensibly mundane.
