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Chelsea Wolfe talks new album ‘The Dark’: “I needed to go through some difficult times to stop self-abandoning”

The Californian cult favourite tells NME why her newly-announced ninth album pays homage to the "gothic heart" of her artistry, the "deeper work" that followed her sobriety, reuniting with a Queens Of The Stone Age member and learning to embrace the second half of her life

Chelsea Wolfe talks new album ‘The Dark’: “I needed to go through some difficult times to stop self-abandoning”
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The Californian cult favourite tells NME why her newly-announced ninth album pays homage to the "gothic heart" of her artistry, the "deeper work" that followed her sobriety, reuniting with a Queens Of The Stone Age member and learning to embrace the second half of her life

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