Spring is basically a Beach House track
― nostormo, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Anyone seen her on her present tour? I'm about to go tonight and I'm both excited and curious to see how arrangements will work.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 18 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Seeing her in a couple weeks
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
I saw the first show of the tour. She was super-apologetic about it being their first show, and kept saying "this is rehearsal for us," though it sounded okay to me. I hadn't listened much to the new album at that time, so I couldn't really play spot the differences, but the string parts came across well.
She's also got a fancy new lighting rig, which was a highlight (heh).
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
is there anything better than this album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
I saw her for the first time last night and she was really great. Fun stage presence with lots of chatter, coy then bubbly at times, overall very confident presentation - this was exactly the show she wants to put on.
I only recognized three songs (All Mirrors, Sister, Shut Up Kiss Me) because I haven't engaged with the new album enough to really differentiate the songs (which might be partly the fault of the album in that it doesn't seem as varied as the predecessor). Her voice is something else. Very impressive live. Seven piece band and light show were fantastic. The screen behind the band with the staircase kept reminding me of the cover of She Hangs Brightly.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
She played "Sister"?? I envy you
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 November 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah her on stage presence is some of the most charismatic I’ve seen. Every All Mirrors song was an emotional rush, the older songs weren’t quite as powerful imo, except that one from her first record which played beautifully within the set. Also the Mark Ronson cover at the end was a lot of fun.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 25 November 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it is the song I was most wanting to hear. <3 it so much.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Ok, I just got All Mirrors on vinyl. Between this and seeing her live I am on board with the new album. It's very maximalist even in its quieter moments.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
I'm having trouble getting into this one still - the arrangements have a "hat on a hat" quality for me - but I do want to rep for her song on the Mark Ronson album
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I listened as intensely as I did to the second Big Thief album, but the Olsen couldn't hold itself together in my mind.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
i do not get people that don’t get this album, alfred’s allergy to her whole career excepted
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
I only mention BT because I spent a week in October incessantly playing both.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Saw her last night in LA and she was terrific.
She did a cover of a jazz standard at the end that didn’t recognize. I think she said it was by Mildred or Meredith someone? Was anyone else there or did she play it elsewhere on her tour? My wife and I wanted to look up the original.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
i saw her last night and she did indeed play that last song which was a cover of a song that i didn't recognize and i don't remember the name. the fact that she's playing it often means hopefully you'll be able to find mention of it somewhere online.
show was great, she is very good live, voice sounds wonderful.
i am still not a huuuuge fan, because i just don't really love that many of her songs, but it was a v good show to see and if you really like her records you should go see her play.
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
just by combing setlist.fm she seems to mostly end with "True Blue" but that is decidedly not a jazz standard so idk
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
oh wait, i think she played that song as the penultimate song before doing a full band encore (i was drunk)
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
I was at that show too lol. Very accurate review!
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Thursday, 12 December 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
i looked it up and the jazz standard is "more than you know", with the version she referred to being the mildred bailey one
― ufo, Thursday, 12 December 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
Amazing, thank you for identifying that!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 13 December 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeY6hfMyN_Y
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 14 August 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
Angel Olsen released a new album today called Whole New Mess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_9FSfpADA
― the future is now, Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
This had been billed as an alternate version of All Mirrors but honestly it just feels like demos.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 29 August 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
I love her voice and it's amazingly strong, so I don't know why she always puts such heavy treatments on it.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Saturday, 29 August 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
really enjoying the new record more than All Mirrors
― winters (josh), Sunday, 30 August 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
i never really got into all mirrors, the arrangements just kept me admiring at a distance instead of being really into it. this unfortunately feels the same way with that cavernous reverb
― ufo, Sunday, 30 August 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
Agree w/ufo. Somehow the music videos made my experiences listening to All Mirrors feel incomplete, as though the songs were made for the visuals and not the other way round. On first listen I prefer this.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
anyone else preferring Whole New Mess to All Mirrors?
― winters (josh), Sunday, 13 September 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fwRaM
new song with sharon van etten, it's pretty nice. sounds like it's just a one off though
― ufo, Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
SVE has been killing it lately.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 20 May 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
I love this song. It has a 80s power ballad vibe that’s perfect for me.
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
love these two
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65olvSNTEw
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Friday, 30 July 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Gloria was bad. This is less bad, but still bad. idk
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 30 July 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
these covers really aren't playing to her strengths at all
― ufo, Saturday, 31 July 2021 07:17 (two years ago) link
This would be better filtered way down so it sounds like you’re hearing it from three rooms over.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 31 July 2021 07:25 (two years ago) link
I've just grown weary of the whole "take an uptempo 80s song and make it morose" approach, and while nothing will ever be worse than what Lorde did to Tears For Fears, these are close.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 31 July 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjXQWZryxOM
― mizzell, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
"I will say originally I wrote this song in 2017, 2018 when I was on tour. I was trying to get Sturgill Simpson to sing it. I was trying to sell it, give it to people. I was like, "Who would want to sing this?" And eventually I started writing more songs that were kind of along the same lines or sort of kin to it, from the record. And I thought, maybe it's time to embrace the fact that I'm not afraid to embrace these roots and to embrace where I live and how it's affected me, and to embrace just a minimal feeling, and to just be straight up about stuff."
― mizzell, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
really like this song/sound, the last two records never grabbed me.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
this is nice, like it more than the last album
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Loved the last album and also extremely ready for this new direction
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
oh this sounds amazing
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXDHL_c65M
lovely
― ufo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
well, it certainly embraces a minimal feeling
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
the world said, give us more soporific jazz-inflected lanacore, give us the be my baby beat slowed down to quarter-speed, and angel heard the world
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
i love this album
― ufo, Thursday, 2 June 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
I think I do too. Wasn't expecting to.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 June 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
Listening now.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link