Season Of The Witch Karen Elson [2021]

Karen Elson never followed up Season of the Witch quickly — her second album, Double Roses , would not arrive until 2017. But this debut remains a beautifully haunting artifact: proof that a true artist can step outside a celebrated career (modeling) and create something enduring. It is an album for autumn nights, for staring out rain-streaked windows, and for anyone who has ever felt like a ghost in their own story.

The album arrived just months before Elson and Jack White announced their divorce after six years of marriage. While the record was made while they were still together, its themes of abandonment, haunting, and feminine solitude take on an almost prophetic quality in retrospect. Both artists have since stated they remain friends and co-parents, but Season of the Witch remains a fascinating document of a collaboration — and a relationship — steeped in creative tension and gothic romance. season of the witch karen elson

“There’s a woman in the mirror, she’s getting older...” Karen Elson never followed up Season of the