The Rebirth Of Chelsea Wolfe
After a six-week stint of touring last summer, Chelsea Wolfe got on the floor and lay down for 20 minutes. Drained and spent, the lines for new song The Mother Road came into her mind: ‘Guess I needed something to break me/Guess I needed something to shake me up.’
“I felt very broken at the end of that particular six weeks,” she recalls. “If my life was just easy and boring, I wouldn’t have anything to write about. But when I keep pushing myself to do more and do better, I reach a breaking point, and when I get past that breaking point I make work that’s halfway decent or that people can connect to.”
It’s not the most sustainable of philosophies. To counteract the energy she was expending and the
