She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

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She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
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Studio album by
Chelsea Wolfe
ReleasedFebruary 9, 2024
Genre Electronica
Length42:56
Label Loma Vista
Producer Dave Sitek
Chelsea Wolfe chronology
X (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
(2022)		She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
(2024)
Singles from She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
  1. "Dusk"
    Released: September 20, 2023
  2. "Whispers in the Echo Chamber"
    Released: October 24, 2023
  3. "Tunnel Lights"
    Released: November 28, 2023
  4. "Everything Turns Blue"
    Released: January 17, 2024

She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe. It was released on February 9, 2024, by Loma Vista Recordings, her first album with the label. It was preceded by four singles.

Contents

The album was recorded with producer and TV on the Radio guitarist Dave Sitek, as well as regular Wolfe collaborators Ben Chisholm, Bryan Tulao, and Jess Gowrie. It consists primarily of electronica, with significant influence of trip hop, gothic rock, and industrial music, and was mainly inspired by Wolfe achieving sobriety in January 2021. It was received positively by critics, who described the album as ambitious, adventurous, and sonically disparate.

Background

After starting work on the album in 2020, Wolfe made the decision to get sober in January 2021. [1] She had started drinking alcohol as a preteen, and realized in her adult years that she was relying on it to "push myself past my own energetic limits, and just do too much." [1] Having struggled in the past to write about deeply personal subject matter, Wolfe waited until she felt "like I was really solid in my sobriety and like it was going to really stick" before she was ready to tackle her struggles in song. [1] Wolfe also noted the inspiration of seeing a friend leave a toxic relationship of 30 years and learning how to live on their own again, [1] and musical influences including the Depeche Mode album Violator , Nine Inch Nails, and Tricky. [1]

When asked for ten songs that influenced the album, Wolfe named Depeche Mode's "Waiting for the Night", the Smashing Pumpkins's "Daphne Descends", Björk's "Bachelorette", Madonna's "Frozen", Nine Inch Nails's "The Hand That Feeds", Massive Attack's "Teardrop", Low's "Rome (Always in the Dark), Radiohead's "Where I End and You Begin, TV on the Radio's "Staring at the Sun", and Lhasa de Sela's "Anywhere on This Road". [2]

Release

On September 20, 2023, Wolfe announced that she had signed with Loma Vista, and released the album's lead single "Dusk". [3] Consequence declared it the Heavy Song of the Week, with Jon Hadusek calling it "genre-defying" and saying it "deserves to be heard on a good set of speakers or headphones." [4] Along the release of "Dusk", Wolfe announced a US and Canada tour with Divide and Dissolve for February and March 2024. [3]

The album was announced on October 24, 2023, with a release date of February 9, 2024, by Loma Vista. [5] It came with the release of the second single, "Whispers in the Echo Chamber", and a music video directed by George Gallardo Kattah. [5] [6] With the announcement, Wolfe stated that the album was about "the past self reaching out to the present self reaching out to the future self to summon change, growth, and guidance." [5]

The third single, "Tunnel Lights", was released on November 28, with another video directed by Gallardo Kattah. [7] On January 17, 2024, Wolfe released the fourth single, "Everything Turns Blue", with a visualizer and a statement that the song is about "finding yourself again after a long era of being part of something toxic. Making a split with someone after 10 years, 20 years, 30 years — there's going to be some high highs and low lows as you begin to process it all." [8]

Style

The album mainly consists of electronica, [9] [10] and features significant influence of trip hop, [9] [10] [11] gothic rock, [10] and industrial music. [12] [13] [11] Some tracks include industrial metal, [9] darkwave, [14] electropop, [14] jazz-metal, [12] and IDM. [9] The electronic elements of the album have been described as "gaseous", [14] "minimalist", [12] "lush", [1] "cavernous", [10] and a "buzzing embrace". [10]

Critical reception

She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.5/10 [15]
Metacritic 80/100 [16]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [17]
Clash 8/10 [9]
Exclaim! 8/10 [10]
Kerrang! 4/5 [12]
The Line of Best Fit 8/10 [18]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [19]
PopMatters 6/10 [14]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Uncut 7/10 [20]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic , She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 80 out of 100 from 15 critic scores. [16]

Uncut 's Johnny Sharp wrote that while Wolfe "tries too hard" with opener "Whispers in the Echo Chamber", her "talent for a melodramatic hook wins through" on "Tunnel Lights" and "Everything Turns Blue". [20] Slant Magazine 's Steve Erickson noted a tension in Wolfe's music between her "tendency to overdramatize or cloak her pain in gothic imagery and a genuine yearning to be heard and understood", saying She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She is more often the latter. [11]

Clash 's Tom Morgan said that while "it'd be difficult to proclaim it her finest work", the album is "certainly Wolfe's most ambitious and careful-constructed". [9] Exclaim! 's Marko Djurdjić called the album "a wondrous, rhythmic exercise in acceptance, change and self-love." [10] Kerrang! 's Sam Law said the album "may be the most creatively adventurous of her career", and called it "a promise that as brilliantly beguiling as Chelsea Wolfe has always been, her big picture is still coming into focus". [12]

The Line of Best Fit 's Greg Hyde wrote that "it is clear when listening to the album after learning of Wolfe's intended vision for it that she has executed it greatly", and said that "fans of artists as disparate as Converge and Tricky should love it". [18] The Skinny 's Adam Turner-Heffer called the album "another successful reinvention from the Californian artist". [13] AllMusic's Heather Phares called the album "hopeful in a deeply honest way" and said it "chronicles an evolution that brings out the best, most adventurous aspects of Wolfe's music." [17] In a less positive review, PopMatters 's Adriane Pontecorvo wrote that "while [Wolfe's] disparate choices of canvas give us a bumpy ride, it's one worth taking in good faith." [14]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Chelsea Wolfe; all music is composed by Wolfe, Ben Chisholm, Bryan Tulao, and Jess Gowrie, except where noted.

She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Whispers in the Echo Chamber" 4:01
2."House of Self-Undoing" 4:23
3."Everything Turns Blue" 4:26
4."Tunnel Lights"
  • Wolfe
  • Chisholm
4:08
5."The Liminal" 4:51
6."Eyes Like Nightshade"
  • Wolfe
  • Chisholm
  • Gowrie
4:34
7."Salt" 4:23
8."Unseen World" 3:27
9."Place in the Sun" 4:09
10."Dusk" 4:34
Total length:42:56

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [21] 107
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [22] 122
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [23] 43
Scottish Albums (OCC) [24] 19
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [25] 28
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [26] 9

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