Astonishing singer-songwriter CHARLOTTE WESSELS (ex-DELAIN) has joined forces with Simone Simons of Epica for her spell binding new unmarried entitled “Dopamine”. This observe is a part of Wessels’ first conventional full-length, full-band solo album, The Obsession, set to be launched on September 20, 2024 by the use of Napalm Data. Promising a deeply immersive and evocative enjoy, the 2 Dutch symphonic steel legends information listeners during the emotional panorama of SSRI-induced numbness. The Obsession showcases WESSELS‘ maximum mature paintings thus far, mixing revolutionary and heavier soundscapes with catchy parts.
Supported through her former Delain bandmates, who give a contribution to the album’s heavier sound, CHARLOTTE WESSELS is about to convey The Obsession to the degree this 12 months. The adventure starts with a liberate display on October 4, 2024 at Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg, adopted through a distinct visitor look with label friends Kamelot and Advert Infinitum in Drachten on October 11, 2024. After those presentations, Wessels will sign up for VOLA on their Buddy of Phantom EU Excursion 2024, kicking off on November 1.
CHARLOTTE WESSELS on “Dopamine”:
“Lyrically, ´Dopamine´ offers with SSRI prompted numbness that I skilled a couple of years in the past when I used to be on Sertraline, a kind of antidepressant. Whilst the medicine used to be truly useful, there have been such a lot of unwanted side effects that I’d by no means heard of. This music offers with a few of them, and whilst it feels susceptible to reveal the enjoy, I am hoping it is helping in breaking down the disgrace and taboo across the subject.
Simone reached out to me as I used to be first opening up about this in an interview, and when the primary model of ´Dopamine´ dropped on Patreon (as a result of path we’re every different’s buyers) she texted how a lot she favored the music. So after we have been operating at the album model it most effective made sense to invite if she’d sing alongside at the observe. I’m so glad she agreed and in the end of the shared introspection, it used to be nice a laugh to let unfastened dressed in red wigs in ball pits and marshmallow swimming pools for the video recordings. Musically, out of all of the new album, ´Dopamine´ went during the greatest transformation. What began out as an EDM demo for a collaboration with a dance duo that by no means came about, turned into an acoustic Track Of The Month on Patreon, which then had a large overhaul when rearranging it with Timo. The brand new band model is an absolute banger, and the pretty visitor vocals through Simone whole the music.”
Whilst nonetheless writing and generating the primary incarnations of her songs in her Six Ft Underneath basement house studio and sharing them with buyers, now CHARLOTTE WESSELS is taking the songs off her new album The Obsession to the following degree with a band of her fellow ex-DELAIN cohorts Timo Somers (guitars, further preparations), Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (bass) and Joey Marin de Boer (drums) in addition to Sophia Vernikov (piano/hammond), contributing to the brand new heavier sound. The album additionally options preparations through Vikram Shankar (Silent Skies, Ache of Salvation), cello through Elianne Anemaat, used to be combined through Guido Aalbers (Muse, Coldplay, The Amassing) and mastered through Andy VanDette (Porcupine Tree, VOLA, Dream Theater).
CHARLOTTE WESSELS concerning the visitors:
“I’m extraordinarily thankful and proud so as to add Simone Simons and Alissa White-Gluz to the line-up of this album. They’re ingenious powerhouses that I’ve such a lot love and admire for. On every occasion we get to paintings in combination is an absolute deal with and so they truly increased the songs with their performances.”
The Obsession Tracklist:
1. Chasing Sunsets
2. Dopamine
3. The Exorcism
4. Soulstice
5. The Crying Room
6. Ode To The West Wind
7. Serpentine
8. Reward
9. All You Are
10. Vigor And Valor
11. Breathe;
12. Comfortable Revolution (2024)
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