Angel Olsen

it's like prime dylan and the band at this point. she is straight up killing it

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK, let's all just calm down now

i'm not even kidding. she is a rolling thunder revue force of nature. she might have the most powerful singing voice i've ever heard. don't miss this!

i'm so excited to see her tonight!

ahhh apparently she is playing burlington tomorrow night and there are still tickets but i have several big work projects due friday :(((((

Get them done early & celebrate w Angel & friends!!

she might have the most powerful singing voice i've ever heard

on some songs her breathy vocals and melodies are too npr-tiny desk-Bob Boilen generic rock for me

My Woman is super great; I liked it since I first heard it but every time I come back to it (which happens with increasing frequency) I like it more.

Just figured out that her backup singer on this album/tour is Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah, who are really good in their own right.

Maybe my expectations were too high but still reckon Burn Your Fire is way better than last record. Just seems more consistent overall - the last one was OK with a few great songs sprinkled through. It does sound more like a carefully considered breakout type record I suppose which i guess the evidence would suggest it was - increasing her profile and audience so thats great and all. Just like the other one better.

Boo, My Woman is so obviously superior in every aspect.

BOO YOU

I prefer Burn as well, but My Woman has some songs that rival anything on Burn IMO "Sister", "My Woman" and "Heart Shaped Face"

Burn hands down. My Woman has some crazy highs though.

my woman is a great record

"sister"! wow

it certainly is, and sister is probably the highlight

saw her in concert at Roskilde Festival, crowd was somewhat noisy which annoyed her, but all the same she seemed very unfocused and unhappy to be there, perhaps intoxicated, not a good show

I saw her a couple years back and she didn't seem happy to be there either. Mind you this was in Vancouver where crowds can be terrible for talking over performers. She made lots of dark sarcastic jokes. Unfortunately I fainted after "Stars" which was the highlight anyway

where is the love for the pine valley cosmonautic CHIVALROUS AMOEKONS, the mekons cover thing she did with will oldham and emmett kelly?

oh i want to hear that

She was great at Pitchfork this year - really enjoyed her and her band - ace playing and stage presence.

ACL taping live stream happening now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqzc3lBfJHc

Don't know if they leave it up after the stream ends.

More of a technical question (asking for a friend) but does anyone know what set-up her band uses to get the bass tone on Burn Your Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQz9OG67wRw

classic track

new b-sides album then soon? cool

she is so good

Love that cover.

I always sense of bunch of off-putting irony and cutesiness in her stuff, which others don't seem to hear

projection?
that's a really cool cover.

yea i really don't get much irony at all from her music, certainly not cutesiness

it is the opposite for me, there is a sincerity to her lyrics and vocals that i really like

i listened to "heart-shaped face" and "sister" this morning, those lyrics about change in each of them i just love

"i've seen you changing / i've seen you aging"

"all my life i thought i'd change ... all my life i thought i'd change"

I read the MY WOMAN lyrics start to finish to see if I could find the irony I thought I heard, and there's not a bit. They read like a lost mid-80s Debbie Gibson record. That is until you get to Sister and it's like, whoa.

there's a continuity to her lyrics thematically over the last two records, burn yr fire felt focused on lost love and all the regret involved, whereas the new one is reconciliation with that.

This is haunting stuff:
https://youtu.be/icA5u-IOBEM

i can't stop listening to my woman. i've been playing a lot of her older stuff too but it seems like such an immense artistic leap happened between the older records and this one

Her band is so good on those long tracks like "Special" and "Sister" - it doesn't seem like the kind of music that demands three electric guitars but there's space for each of them to do something and the way they build tension is fantastic.

Listening to those two back to back makes me appreciate the rougher edges of "Special" even more.

another song from the new collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_4c-LJ9Xc

live version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTDDr-EYTM

"special"!

Anyone into the new one?

I was very taken by the cover art of the new one, so I gave it a spin last night and geeked out when I discovered there was a cover of "Tougher Than the Rest" on it.

ooh, tougher than the rest cover you say...

listening now, this is (at least from tttr onwards) very understated, like her first albums, she really has something very special about her that make these simple acoustic guitar songs spellbinding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLvIOzIqljc

some of angel olsen's songs are just fucking incredible. i love the psychedelic guitar sounds on this one.

love it

"sister" off the last album is a song i play a lot and think about a lot. "All my life I thought I'd change"

Sweet dreams rules. Orbison-Chris Isaac vibe with some dirty rock n roll

I had never heard her Springsteen cover, not sure I like the alone in a laundry room vibe to it. Also, I think she changes a minor chord to a major chord, which really alters the mood dramatically for me.

My current fave Angel Olsen track is 'The Waiting' off the first record. Glorious song.

Hey josh, alone in a laundry room is a good comparison. Ymmv but the latter half of the record is in that vein and a total bummer. First half is fairly solid tho

Phases is good. I was wrong. Good record for unwinding.