09 September 2022 - 0 Comments

Princess Chelsea is the musical project of Chelsea Nikkel (she/her), a musician and songwriter based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).

Today Princess Chelsea shares her latest spellbinding single Forever is a Charm and an accompanying music video. The New-Zealand-based artist exhibits her ethereal instincts as a producer and arranger with refined synth arrangements and glockenspiel countermelodies on this track. Minimal groove-based guitar and bass arrangements, contributed by Jonathan Bree (The Brunettes), evoke the new wave melodies of The Motels or The Cars.

Chelsea crafts an enchanting composition, balancing dreamy synths and sparkling chimes with a thumping beat. She repeats the hypnotic incantation, “Forever is a charm and it’s never getting better, it’s nothing like the words that you wrote in your letter.” With each echoing repetition, it seems as if she’s willing herself to believe the sentiment. She injects the dreamy atmosphere with the slightly Breeders-inspired chorus of “When you’re with me, I feel like I could die / Die / Die / Die!” While the track could be mistaken for a love song, the easy lilt of Chelsea’s vocals indicate her true intentions of bemoaning “boring fake people.”

Forever is a Charm comes with the release of an equally entrancing music video. Chelsea wanders the vacated halls of a gilded theatre as if she is bound to haunt the theatre “forever” with her own stories left untold. Chelsea’s creative vision comes alive in every aspect of production and is sure to enthrall on her upcoming album.

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Happening throughout December, Princess Chelsea's Everything Is Going To Be Alright tour promises to be one of the biggest and best of her career. The shows will be a sensory explosion full of elaborately stage dressings, live visuals and at least five synthesisers and three glockenspiels.

Catch Princess Chelsea performing in Wellington at Meow on December 9, in Auckland at the Powerstation on December 10, in Dunedin at Dive on December 17, and in Christchurch at 12 Bar on December 18.

Joining Princess Chelsea on all four dates is Ōtautahi's Mousey, who released her critically acclaimed indie rock album My Friends earlier in the year. Described by Undertheradar as "glorious, explosive jangly power-pop," and the NZ Listener as "immensely catchy, memorable pop-rock" you'll want to be at the show as soon as doors open. Tickets are on sale now - get 'em before they're gone!

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Photo Credit: Frances Carter

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