Angel Olsen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mIA1r2ZELU

fuckin' A, I can't hardly wait for this album

Now that's a song! Wow

Is it her on lead guitar?

i don't think so but her band is fantastic

the variety and slightly lighter overall tone on this new one makes it slightly disappointing for me - but i still think its a decent, listenable album i will continue to spend time with it even if it doesnt have the dark power of burn your fire

the variety and slightly lighter overall tone

excellent!

not pretending to be a finely crafted review there just an off the cuff comment

i do think she is going for a broader kind of appeal with this one

no I'm legit excited for something lighter than the last one

New album can't come fast enough. Hearing the 2014 bore on my student station's MegaSEg for months has started to fuck with my sleep.

right - i see - yep i got the record in the mail a couple of days ago so its early days but i def think it has a different tone from previous - i guess she is exploring different emotions this time around

"Woman" is an amazing track. Scorched closing guitar solo brings it home.

it's much stronger than Burn Your Fire though i get that some would be disappointed in the lack of anything like White Fire etc.

it's one of my favourites of the year, Sister/Those Were The Days/Woman is an incredible run of tracks

first listen to the whole album last night found it (and me) too scattered to form much of a coherent impression; giving it another go this morning & I think I'm liking it more

this record is really gorgeous and dynamic and I am psyched to finally totally enjoy one of her records

Where are you all streaming this? For some reason Apple Music doesn't have the whole album yet, even though it says it's out today

i bought it

buying this monday when local store gets it

so yeah this is sensational

This is excellent. It's streaming on Amazon Prime, I love it.

Just tried this out. Couldn't make it past track 2. Just too much singing and the music isn't my cup of tea. I guess I was expecting something like Julia Holter or Laura Groves, both musicians I really enjoy. Maybe when I just want a generic rock record with female vocals i'll try it again.

Sounds way better than the last one (which I was mostly lukewarm on, a few songs aside), based on one listen.

this still seems like mildly tasty layers of style (vibrato-laden ethereal vocals, lynchian guitar chords) laid over pretty weak songs

(sort of like lana del rey, actually)

pretty weak might be too strong. just... mediocre.

the songs on ultraviolence are tight

it's too bad Olsen threw a bi of shade at LDR recently cause she could make good dough writing her some songs

I'm glad I'm not the only person who was reminded of Ms. del Rey at times

Was not a fan of her last record but Sister in particular is just insanely great. Just has this intensity to it that I'm totally captivated by. Intern and Woman are also incredible.

yeah this grabbed me pretty quickly on one distracted listen, i tried and tried with the last one and it never hit home. picking up a physical copy and i'll dig into it more after that.

i don't hear any similarities to LDR

she's changed her singing style to be a lot breathier, is the main thing

strangely (or not?) this change isnt reflected at all by the singles, so it really jumped out at me on first listen.... *fingers crossed* that this is just a weird creative decision, and not something she resorted to because of vocal strain or w/e

Heard this playing in a record store yesterday and picked it up. Great album!

Her last album was great I do not get all this ho hum talk abt it

yeah that was a great record, quite introverted compared to this one, which is also a p hifi record where BYFFNW was lofi

I'm getting Mazzy Star vibes, touches of VU, Jackson Browne, lotsa good stuff

I checked this out because 'Sister' was pretty epic. The rest of the album is pretty standard pop/rock. Her voice will take some getting used to — it seems a little too loud in the mix and she does that vibrato-y trembling thing a little too often. But, wow, those two longer tracks on the second half are really fantastic.

Let’s „don’t care what the papers say“ (Intern) //

The critical reception of this confuses me: To my ears what we have here is something bland and seriously uninteresting. Musically an unremarkable re-hash of synth-pop ideas (Human League et al.) with the odd dash of an anodyne version of Siouxsie (think cavernous production, think big, think EMA), until the ballads set in. It is all held together by a voice that makes me cringe: Once you have encountered Angel Olsen’s dreadful melisma „Ti-Hi-Hime“ bang at the beginning of „Shut Up Kiss Me“ you discover genuine sophistication in "I wanna hold you ha-ha-ha-ha-hand“. Or am I missing the point which is: „Kiss me, unless you want me to carry on with this.“? A forgettable album, one of those myriads that do not require my attention. One could leave it that, but metacritic assembles evidence that critics find something in this that completely eludes me: A current score of 89 for this (including Pitchfork, but you know, their judgment is shakey from time to time; allmusic; The Guardian; The New York Times; Chicago Herald – blimey!) certainly is something to write home about, but according to metacritic people at home will know anyway. Music for men who cannot get enough of the cocaine sheen in the yearning of Stevie Nicks!
There is a passage brimming with humour in „Sister“, when she sings: „And all this blessing was a curse / before I opened up my ...“ and who would not expect „purse“? However, it turns out, it was her „heart“ that the singer opened at that point – a case of thoroughly defying expectations.
Laura Marling, Julia Holter, Courtney Barnett, Elza Soares, Serafina Steer, Cat Power, Eileen Jewell – they all go to show that the world is not deplete of interesting young and moving female voices producing exciting music.

jfc

what is even going on there. reads like someone improvising a review during their first listen of the record

Two stars.

And I seriously doubt any actual listening to the album took place.

Laura Marling, Julia Holter, Courtney Barnett, Elza Soares, Serafina Steer, Cat Power, Eileen Jewell – they all go to show that the world is not deplete of interesting young and moving female voices producing exciting music.

Elza Soares is 79.

i agree that this was a two-star album review

Here's an overwritten try-hard metacritic user review to counter that:

IanJWalters
Sep 2, 2016
10
Confidently confused, unabashedly devoted to her feelings, she esteems intuition as a goddess worth building an altar for, it seems, instead of just burning a fire. These songs rock and roll. "I dare you to understand what makes me a woman," she croons, at first, then belts the last syllable, stretching it all the way around the earth. Challenge accepted.

Her interview in Rookie goes into her apprehension wrt critics -- pretty interesting, would recommend

The thirst is real in that "review."

Anyone else enamoured by the direction the album takes from "Heart Shaped Face" onwards? Settles into a nice groove with some top tier Olsen tracks ("Sister" and "Woman").

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/27/article-1165388-015418CD0000044D-405_468x286.jpg

holy fuck if you have any interest in her music whatsoever you really don't want to miss this tour

Yeah she was great