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
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
where is the love for the pine valley cosmonautic CHIVALROUS AMOEKONS, the mekons cover thing she did with will oldham and emmett kelly?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
oh i want to hear that
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
She was great at Pitchfork this year - really enjoyed her and her band - ace playing and stage presence.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
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
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQz9OG67wRw
classic track
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
new b-sides album then soon? cool
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
she is so good
― marcos, Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
Love that cover.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
I always sense of bunch of off-putting irony and cutesiness in her stuff, which others don't seem to hear
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
projection?that's a really cool cover.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
yea i really don't get much irony at all from her music, certainly not cutesiness
― marcos, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
it is the opposite for me, there is a sincerity to her lyrics and vocals that i really like
― marcos, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
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"
― marcos, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― rip van wanko, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
This is haunting stuff:https://youtu.be/icA5u-IOBEM
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 14 October 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
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
― marcos, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 30 October 2017 08:09 (six years ago) link
another song from the new collectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_4c-LJ9Xc
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
live versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWTDDr-EYTM
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 08:48 (six years ago) link
"special"!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 November 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Anyone into the new one?
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 12 November 2017 04:14 (six years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 November 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
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
― niels, Sunday, 12 November 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― treeship 2, Sunday, 26 November 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
love it
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Sunday, 26 November 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
"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"
― treeship 2, Sunday, 26 November 2017 05:32 (six years ago) link
Sweet dreams rules. Orbison-Chris Isaac vibe with some dirty rock n roll
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
My current fave Angel Olsen track is 'The Waiting' off the first record. Glorious song.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
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
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
Phases is good. I was wrong. Good record for unwinding.
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFfyaS65tc
angel sings backing here, album debuted at 25 on alternative chart according to the comments :)
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
i think sister is one of the best songs i've ever heard
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
indeed
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
i should listen to phases again. it didn't grip me like "my woman" but it's possible that's my fault. she's really brilliant.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
phases is a tough sell, i posted about it ad nauseam earlier so will try not to repeat myself but it dovetails in the second half into a real downer of a record - sparse, ragged acoustic and more like her earlier material. by the end of the album i was done with my hard liquor and felt like dying, it is a real bummer.
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
interesting. she's one of those songwriters who really makes you feel what she wants you to feel so i can imagine if she wanted to she could really pummel her listeners with despair.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
totally! give it a second chance perhaps :)
also the first few tracks are fire so it may be unfair to expect the rest to follow suit, and it is a bsides collection as well.
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:32 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great post
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjt698Zv5jQ
new album All Mirrors out October 4, produced by John Congleton
the single is really good, love the blend of synths and orchestration. it's a shift in sound (but not songwriting) but it makes a lot of sense after the last one
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJ2yitJI_U
oh and i guess her song with mark ronson from recently never got posted here, it's pretty nice
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
i've been listening to the Ronson/Olsen track every day this summer
― josh winters (josh), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
everything seems to indicate this is going to be her goth album i'm excited
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaN60k0-zY
wow
― ufo, Thursday, 12 September 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
Wow. That was dramatic.
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
catchy -_-
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X0q3WZwSLE
this is a good performance
the album is quite good too, though i don't think it's on the same level as my woman but i never really expected it to be. my woman captured that dreamy folk rock vibe perfectly with "sister"/"those were the days"/"woman" and this one is going for something very different. the 80s goth synths with real strings on top, both blending in with the synths and being extremely dramatic, is a great sound but it's almost too much by the end of it. this probably sounds more negative than i actually feel about it though idk. i think "new love cassette" is my favourite with the way the strings fit the most naturally with the plodding synths.
i'm looking forward to the alternate solo version of the album that's apparently coming next year
― ufo, Friday, 4 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link