Angel Olsen
An indie singer/songwriter who delivers her vulnerable songs with a distinctive warble informed by vintage country, Angel Olsen's early, spare, acoustic songs grew increasingly lush and dramatic across her first several albums. The onetime Bonnie "Prince" Billy backup singer debuted with the reverb-heavy solo indie folk of 2010's Strange Cacti, expanding to an alt-country power trio for her third album, 2014's Burn Your Fire for No Witness, her Billboard 200 debut. Two years later, My Woman reached a career-high number 47 on the chart. While maintaining an intimate character and a haunting sound reinforced by stylized echo, Olsen recorded her fifth long-player, 2019's All Mirrors, with a 14-piece orchestra. The follow-up, 2020's Whole New Mess, offered an overhauled solo version of All Mirrors that included a pair of original songs. An '80s-themed covers EP, Aisles, appeared a year later. Sixth studio album Big Time arrived in 2022. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Olsen began performing in the city's coffee shops during her teenage years, soon branching out and tapping into a network of like-minded artists. She moved to Chicago in 2006, eventually working with California musician Emmett Kelly as part of his collective the Cairo Gang. Singing harmonies on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 2010 album The Wonder Show of the World as well as its 2011 follow-up, Wolfroy Goes to Town, Olsen also released her own set of original acoustic-guitar songs, Strange Cacti, in 2010. The cassette was later reissued as a 12", both on Bathetic Records. Half Way Home, a spare album with understated arrangements and a homespun approach somewhere between '50s country crooners and her indie contemporaries, followed on the same label in 2012. In early 2013, Olsen added drummer Josh Jaeger and bassist Stewart Bronaugh to flesh out her stripped-back sound, which added a brooding, garage rock appeal to her intimate music. Soon after forming the trio, Olsen returned to the studio with producer John Congleton to track sessions for her third album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which was released in early 2014 on Jagjaguwar. The record was critically well-received and spent a week at number 71 on the Billboard 200. By then resettled in Asheville, North Carolina, Olsen expanded her sound still further on 2016's My Woman, touring as a six-piece to support its release. My Woman fared even better on the U.S. album chart, reaching number 47. Jagjaguwar followed it in 2017 with Phases, a compilation of Olsen rarities such as early demos and unreleased material from the My Woman sessions. In June 2019, Olsen contributed a featured spot on a track for Mark Ronson's collaborative Late Night Feelings, whose other guests included the likes of Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, and Lykke Li. Featuring production by Congleton and chamber orchestra arrangements by Jherek Bischoff and Ben Babbitt, her expansive fifth studio album, All Mirrors, arrived on Jagjaguwar in October 2019. That record also landed on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 52. Olsen returned the following year with the stripped-down Whole New Mess, her first true solo album since 2012's Half Way Home. Captured in Anacortes, Washington, at the Unknown, a church that was converted into a recording studio by producer Nicholas Wilbur and Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum, it saw Olsen rework nine songs from the heavyhearted All Mirrors (alongside two originals) using only her voice and guitar accompaniment. The box set Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories followed in May 2021. It packaged All Mirrors and Whole New Mess with a set of related bonus material titled Far Memory and a 40-page souvenir photo book. Later the same month, the John Congleton-produced original song "Like I Used To" found her duetting with Sharon Van Etten. She returned just a few months later with the covers EP Aisles. It reimagined '80s tracks made famous by acts like Laura Branigan, Billy Idol, and Men Without Hats. Olsen released a cover of Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind" in early 2022, and her studio album Big Time appeared the following June.© Fred Thomas & Marcy Donelson /TiVo Read more
An indie singer/songwriter who delivers her vulnerable songs with a distinctive warble informed by vintage country, Angel Olsen's early, spare, acoustic songs grew increasingly lush and dramatic across her first several albums. The onetime Bonnie "Prince" Billy backup singer debuted with the reverb-heavy solo indie folk of 2010's Strange Cacti, expanding to an alt-country power trio for her third album, 2014's Burn Your Fire for No Witness, her Billboard 200 debut. Two years later, My Woman reached a career-high number 47 on the chart. While maintaining an intimate character and a haunting sound reinforced by stylized echo, Olsen recorded her fifth long-player, 2019's All Mirrors, with a 14-piece orchestra. The follow-up, 2020's Whole New Mess, offered an overhauled solo version of All Mirrors that included a pair of original songs. An '80s-themed covers EP, Aisles, appeared a year later. Sixth studio album Big Time arrived in 2022.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Olsen began performing in the city's coffee shops during her teenage years, soon branching out and tapping into a network of like-minded artists. She moved to Chicago in 2006, eventually working with California musician Emmett Kelly as part of his collective the Cairo Gang. Singing harmonies on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 2010 album The Wonder Show of the World as well as its 2011 follow-up, Wolfroy Goes to Town, Olsen also released her own set of original acoustic-guitar songs, Strange Cacti, in 2010. The cassette was later reissued as a 12", both on Bathetic Records. Half Way Home, a spare album with understated arrangements and a homespun approach somewhere between '50s country crooners and her indie contemporaries, followed on the same label in 2012.
In early 2013, Olsen added drummer Josh Jaeger and bassist Stewart Bronaugh to flesh out her stripped-back sound, which added a brooding, garage rock appeal to her intimate music. Soon after forming the trio, Olsen returned to the studio with producer John Congleton to track sessions for her third album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which was released in early 2014 on Jagjaguwar. The record was critically well-received and spent a week at number 71 on the Billboard 200.
By then resettled in Asheville, North Carolina, Olsen expanded her sound still further on 2016's My Woman, touring as a six-piece to support its release. My Woman fared even better on the U.S. album chart, reaching number 47. Jagjaguwar followed it in 2017 with Phases, a compilation of Olsen rarities such as early demos and unreleased material from the My Woman sessions. In June 2019, Olsen contributed a featured spot on a track for Mark Ronson's collaborative Late Night Feelings, whose other guests included the likes of Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, and Lykke Li. Featuring production by Congleton and chamber orchestra arrangements by Jherek Bischoff and Ben Babbitt, her expansive fifth studio album, All Mirrors, arrived on Jagjaguwar in October 2019. That record also landed on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 52.
Olsen returned the following year with the stripped-down Whole New Mess, her first true solo album since 2012's Half Way Home. Captured in Anacortes, Washington, at the Unknown, a church that was converted into a recording studio by producer Nicholas Wilbur and Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum, it saw Olsen rework nine songs from the heavyhearted All Mirrors (alongside two originals) using only her voice and guitar accompaniment. The box set Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories followed in May 2021. It packaged All Mirrors and Whole New Mess with a set of related bonus material titled Far Memory and a 40-page souvenir photo book. Later the same month, the John Congleton-produced original song "Like I Used To" found her duetting with Sharon Van Etten. She returned just a few months later with the covers EP Aisles. It reimagined '80s tracks made famous by acts like Laura Branigan, Billy Idol, and Men Without Hats. Olsen released a cover of Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind" in early 2022, and her studio album Big Time appeared the following June.
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Aisles
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Aug 20, 2021
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All Mirrors
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Oct 4, 2019
Pitchfork: Best New MusicThree years after My Woman, an album which saw her move even further away from her main influences (Cat Power, Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star, Kate Bus ...
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Deluxe Edition)
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Nov 18, 2014
Pitchfork: Best New Music16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
My Woman
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Sep 2, 2016
Pitchfork: Best New Music16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Whole New Mess
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Jul 28, 2020
Angel Olsen's spare, echoey Whole New Mess is a prequel of sorts, the blueprints that led to the ornate orchestral pop of her acclaimed 2019 release A ...
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Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on May 7, 2021
Behind the long title, a long album: in fact, this is two albums run together. This release brings together the last two works from this singer, write ...
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Phases
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Nov 10, 2017
One year after the release of her superb My Woman, Angel Olsen opens her treasure chest with this collection of B sides, demos and unpublished raritie ...
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All The Good Times
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Mar 29, 2022
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Half Way Home
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Bathetic Records on Sep 4, 2012
With Half Way Home, her first proper solo album following some lesser EP and cassette material, Chicago songwriter Angel Olsen constructs a landscape ...
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Feb 17, 2014
Pitchfork: Best New Music16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Strange Cacti
Angel Olsen
Folk - Released by Bathetic Records on Jul 1, 2010
With her original-material debut Strange Cacti, Angel Olsen presents a haunting six-track collection of indie folk tunes about heartbreak and life les ...
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New Love Cassette (Mark Ronson Remix)
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Jun 19, 2020
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Sleepwalker
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by SIXTEEN TAMBOURINES RECORDS on Jan 20, 2013
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All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel remix)
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Apr 10, 2020
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Big Time
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Apr 27, 2022
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Through The Fires
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on May 18, 2022
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Mr. Lonely
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Sep 17, 2020
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Hi-Five
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Jan 9, 2014
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Miracle of Love: A Bathetic Records Compilation (Compilation)
Angel Olsen
Electronic - Released by Bathetic Records on Aug 14, 2012
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Forgiven/Forgotten
Angel Olsen
Alternative & Indie - Released by Jagjaguwar on Nov 14, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo