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Pain Is Beauty
Singer-Songwriter · 2013 · 12 tracks · 54m

Pain Is Beauty

Chelsea Wolfe

A cinematic collision of electronic pulses, gothic rock, and neofolk. Suffocatingly atmospheric and obsessed with the intersection of love and destruction.

September 3, 2013

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A suffocatingly beautiful descent into romantic fatalism and atmospheric dread.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 54m
01
Feral Love
3:22
01
Kings
3:58
02
We Hit a Wall
3:35
02
Reins
5:15
03
House of Metal
5:00
03
Ancestors, the Ancients
4:35
04
The Warden
3:52
04
They’ll Clap When You’re Gone
5:52
05
Destruction Makes the World Burn Brighter
2:38
05
The Waves Have Come
8:29
06
Sick
5:35
06
Lone
2:36
Moments Worth Listening For
The transition from the icy electronic pulse of Feral Love into the crushing sludge-rock weight of We Hit a Wall.
The agonizingly slow eight-minute build of The Waves Have Come, where piano eventually gives way to a tidal wave of strings and distortion.
The unsettling, mechanical precision of the drum machine on The Warden clashing with Wolfe's ghostly, breathy delivery.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Pain Is Beauty sound next to the rest of Chelsea Wolfe's catalogue?

Keys/Synth+2.1σ

The instrumentation foregrounds keys/synth far more than the catalogue usually does.

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