-
9.0
78970
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Her strongest and most ambitious album yet, a cavernous chasm filled with beauty, brutality, and endless possibility
Read Review
-
9.0
79540
9.0 |
The Quietus
Sinister, broken, moody and haunting
Read Review
-
8.5
78617
8.5 |
The 405
Abyss is like a nightmare. It consumes you, shows you a darkness you'd tried to keep away from, but in the cold of night, wide awake and heart-pumping you can't deny you enjoy the thrill of it
Read Review
-
8.1
78667
8.1 |
Pitchfork
A bleak, beautiful masterpiece
Read Review
-
8.1
78976
8.1 |
Earbuddy
If you’re looking for passionate, exhilarating and cinematic experience, then I’d certainly recommend you take the plunge into Abyss
Read Review
-
8.0
79311
8.0 |
Gig Soup
Chelsea Wolfe is nothing less than a creative pioneer of obscure, unique and alluring music
Read Review
-
8.0
78857
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Chelsea Wolfe is still one of the most fearless and challenging musicians in the indie music scene and thankfully, for her artistic sake, she remains in the abyss of contemporary music
Read Review
-
8.0
78695
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Capturing the worrying split between calm and anxiety, Chelsea Wolfe displays an unerring knack for transparency and clarity
Read Review
-
8.0
78704
8.0 |
musicOMH
Despite the unsettling nature of Abyss as a whole, it’s a work that is strangely comforting once its charms are fully submitted to
Read Review
-
8.0
78723
8.0 |
All Music
Abyss proves that she knows when to unleash her full fury and when to rein it in, and the results are stunning
Read Review
-
8.0
78618
8.0 |
Mojo
Abyss is a darkly compelling tour de force. Print edition only
-
8.0
78619
8.0 |
Uncut
Wolfe's brand of anguish best succeeds when she's out to do serious damage. Print edition only
-
8.0
78587
8.0 |
The FT
With admirable perversity Chelsea Wolfe has crafted an entire album of anti-summer songs
Read Review
-
8.0
78589
8.0 |
The Skinny
Abyss portrays a skilled songwriter at the peak of her game
Read Review
-
8.0
78666
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Abyss proves that there's still much work to do in the dark side of alt rock. Chelsea Wolfe is surely ahead of the curve
Read Review
-
7.5
78588
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Abyss terrifies from start to finish, the haunting work of a twisted genius in her prime
Read Review
-
7.5
78672
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Abyss, like any Wolfe album, is a vast and immersive sonic universe, and her deepest and most personal yet
Read Review
-
7.0
78678
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Abyss plumbs depths only hinted at in previous work. And to explore this darkness, Wolfe doesn’t give listeners so much as a candle
Read Review
-
7.0
78786
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Abyss is built around dichotomy: sleep being stress, doom becoming hope, and, most obvious of all, the quiet/loud dynamism which powers the album
Read Review
-
7.0
78791
7.0 |
PopMatters
Abyss may not be a go-to for either late-night or summer listening, but it ably solidifies Wolfe’s presence as a devastatingly unique voice in our current musical climate
Read Review
-
7.0
78625
7.0 |
Spin
Abyss weighs unnecessarily heavy at times but Wolfe makes a convincing case to follow her into the underworld
Read Review
-
7.0
78856
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Throughout Abyss, Wolfe uses her pain as a powerful tool, revealing the beauty underneath it
Read Review
-
7.0
78943
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Many of the album's best songs focus on her sleep paralysis, creating a lyrical and musical cohesion where each element reinforces the others
Read Review
-
6.7
78685
6.7 |
A.V. Club
Hearing Wolfe as she envelops her many stylistic tricks into one all-consuming package is worth the exhaustion of the total experience
Read Review
-
6.0
78833
6.0 |
Crack
The most apparent shift here is in production values: Abyss feels fuller, crisper, far less experimental than previous work
Read Review
-
6.0
78632
6.0 |
NOW
At nearly an hour long, it takes psychological strength to get through
Read Review
-
6.0
78941
6.0 |
Clash
Her most successful effort yet
Read Review
-