I’ve been playing Chelsea Wolfe’s beautiful new album Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs quite a lot over the past month (listen to it). Its brittle gothic folk emantes from the speakers in a calming spacious way. Her label Sargent House recently captured two performances in their Glassroom. Above is ‘Spinning Centers’, a favourite from the album and below is a Sibylle Baier cover of ‘The End’ with Wolfe looking suitably gothic.

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