Chelsea Wolfe
“Chelsea Wolfe was really influential on our Evaporate album. There’s a darkness in her sound that’s like watching a brutal, brutal horror movie, and it sticks with you. Her stuff has introduced me to lots of other artists, who I would say fall under the prog label but they’re on the fringes of lots of different genres. [Chelsea’s 2015 album] Abyss has got a mix of sparse
folk with big metal sections, and then almost pop sensibilities in parts. None of the tracks go exactly where you think they’re going to take you.
It’s one of my favourite albums ever. I can listen to it over and over and continue to find new things and notice little nuances that force me to re-evaluate it. I love the different use of all the instrumentation, which wouldn’t mesh together so well if it wasn’t so experimental.
“For Evaporate, there were quite a few parts where we thought, ‘Should we use that? Does that need more guitar?’ And we said, ‘Fuck it. Leave it as it is.’ We were listening to Chelsea Wolfe, and you can hear that in some of our songs – they’re just a bit bolder.”