Wolfe’s Janus-faced loud-quiet dynamic is at its starkest on “Twin Fawn,” which opens with gentle acoustic guitar strumming, twinkling cymbals, and Wolfe’s voice at its most delicate before the track erupts into a distortion-laden guitar squall. As on Abyss, Wolfe frontloads her fury and gradually allows more space for haunting, contemplative moments as Hiss Spun unfurls. Amid the soaring guitar distortion and crashing drums of “16 Psyche,” she sings of a “bent” world that blunts her ability to love and prevents her from finding anywhere to hide, the resulting “perfect psychosis” articulated in a death-metal growl from former Isis frontman Aaron Turner. With seismic, fuzzed-out basslines and booming percussion, “Spun” juxtaposes pure sludge with Wolfe’s spectral coos about reckless relationships. Wolfe doubles down on the black-metal influences that she first embraced on Abyss. On her new album, Hiss Spun, she retreats further inward as the buzzing chaos of the encroaching outside world begins to pose an even greater threat. Describing the exquisite suffering of idealistic love falling apart on 2013’s Pain Is Beauty, the Californian singer-songwriter lamented the tumult of a war within her own head, and on 2015’s Abyss she described her heart as empty and tomb-like. ![]() Chelsea Wolfe’s grim hybrid of neo-folk and gothic rock has often focused on inner turmoil and feelings of being trapped inside oneself.
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