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While still bearing some similarities to Roy Orbison or lesser-known mid-'90s indie singer Edith Frost, Olsen's voice feels more fearlessly her own here, stepping out of the muted shadows to bellow and wail like some wild hybrid of PJ Harvey and Emmylou Harris on a rocking track like \"Forgiven\/Forgotten\" or the more country-seeped \"Hi-Five.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Black LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50383540420939,"sku":"1074347","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50383540879691,"sku":"370047","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50383540617547,"sku":"370046","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50383541403979,"sku":"383394","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cf182161-96e2-4948-8854-52cd724d4c92_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726272129"},{"product_id":"big-time","title":"Big Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. 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The shards of this grief—the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents— are scattered throughout the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album. Loss has long been a subject of Olsen’s elegiac songs, but few can write elegies with quite the reckless energy as she. If that bursting-at-the-seams, running downhill energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. She’s working with an elastic, expansive mastery of her voice—both sonically and artistically. 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But there’s also an abyss above. There’s a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown — each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the journey on which we find Angel Olsen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlsen’s artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path, and on her vulnerable, Big Mood new album, \u003ci\u003eAll Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. In the process of making this album, she found a new sound and voice, a blast of fury mixed with hard won self-acceptance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In every way —from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward— this record is about owning up to your darkest side,” Olsen said. “Finding the capacity for new love and trusting change, even when you feel like a stranger. This is a record about facing yourself and learning to forgive what you see. It is about losing empathy, trust, love for destructive people. 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These heartsore explorations shape \u003ci\u003eWhole New Mess\u003c\/i\u003e, Olsen’s first solo album since her 2012 debut and an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in real-time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least nine of the eleven songs on \u003ci\u003eWhole New Mess\u003c\/i\u003e should sound familiar to anyone who has heard \u003ci\u003eAll Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e, Olsen’s grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. \u003ci\u003eLark, Summer, Chance \u003c\/i\u003e- they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for \u003ci\u003eAll Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e. 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In that sense, these 11 songs—solitary, frank, and unflinching examinations of what it’s like to love, lose, and survive—are entirely new. This is the sound of Angel Olsen, sorting through the kind of trouble we’ve all known, as if just for herself and whoever else needs it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50405641552203,"sku":"1098295","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50405642305867,"sku":"1098294","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50405643387211,"sku":"1098293","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ebe942b4-4003-4836-b460-e79aa2fd0fdb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726580502"},{"product_id":"half-way-home","title":"Half Way Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eLush, beautiful dark folk from Angel Olsen on Jagjaguwar. 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Borne from the twin stars of grief and love, the album delivered beautiful sense of certainty, the sure-footed sound of an artist fully, finally at home with herself. But within that wisdom comes the realisation that there is no finish line, no destination or static end point to life while you’re living it, and \u003ci\u003eForever Means\u003c\/i\u003e collects songs from the \u003ci\u003eBig Time\u003c\/i\u003e sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen’s words, “in search of something else.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I was somewhere traveling,” says Olsen, “stopped for a few days and wandering the city, and I was thinking ‘what does ‘forever’ really mean? 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Balancing tenacity and tenderness, \u003ci\u003ePhases\u003c\/i\u003e acts as a deep-dive for longtime fans, as well as a fitting introduction to Olsen’s sprawling sonics for the uninitiated. \u003ci\u003eFly On Your Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, previously contributed to the online-only, anti-Trump fundraiser \u003ci\u003eOur First 100 Days\u003c\/i\u003e, opens \u003ci\u003ePhases\u003c\/i\u003e, before seamlessly slipping into \u003ci\u003eSpecial\u003c\/i\u003e, a brand new song from the \u003ci\u003eMy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e recording sessions. Both \u003ci\u003eHow Many Disasters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSans\u003c\/i\u003e are first-time listens: home-recorded demos that have never been released, leaning heavily on Olsen’s arresting croon and lonesome guitar. 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The crunchier, blown-out production of the former is gone, but that fire is now burning wilder. Her disarming, timeless voice is even more front-and-center. Yet, the strange, raw power and slowly unspooling incantations of her previous efforts remain. Over two previous albums, she gave us reverb-shrouded poetic swoons, shadowy folk, grunge-pop band workouts and haunting, finger-picked epics. \u003ci\u003eMy Woman \u003c\/i\u003eis an exhilarating complement to her past work, and one for which Olsen re-calibrated her writing \/ recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase. As the record evolves, one gets the sense that the \u003ci\u003eMy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e of the title is Olsen herself, absolutely in command but also willing to bend with the influence of collaborators and circumstances. An intuitively smart, warmly communicative and fearlessly generous record, \u003ci\u003eMy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to everyone. 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