{"title":"Angel Olsen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-clear-smoke-translucent-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'WHOLE NEW MESS' LP (Clear Smoke Translucent)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-20 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAngel Olsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-2\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhole New Mess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003clabel class=\"ng-tns-c14-20\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eLABEL:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003clabel class=\"release-date-label small mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: \u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eAug 28, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLEAR SMOKE TRANSLUCENT VINLY LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love—how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape Whole New Mess, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen’s grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. “Lark,” “Summer,” “Chance”—they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is its own record with its own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of All Mirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole New Mess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I had gone through this breakup, but it was so much bigger than that—I’d lost friendships, too. When you get out of a relationship, you have to examine who you are or were in all the relationships,” Olsen remembers of the moment. “I wanted to record when I was still processing these feelings. These are the personal takes, encapsulated in a moment.”..Years earlier, while making My Woman at the legendary Electro-Vox in Los Angeles, Olsen struck up a sudden and deep friendship that transcended work with Michael Harris, the studio’s head engineer. She recognized a kindred spirit—someone more interested in the wider world and intense connections than his unexpected position of power in the music industry. Since those sessions, Harris and Olsen kept in close touch, visiting one another at home and catching up during long calls. “We see each other very clearly, without words,” says Harris. “And the guiding light of our working relationship has always been emotionality—what’s there, or what’s not there.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith that rapport in mind, Olsen asked Harris to help find a studio where she could sit still with these thoughts, a space where, as she puts it, “vulnerability exists.” They asked around and settled on The Unknown, the Catholic church that Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum and producer Nicholas Wilbur converted into a recording studio a decade ago in the small town of Anacortes, Washington. Situated on a small finger of land that juts toward the Pacific Ocean, Anacortes would act as kind of harbor for Olsen, limiting distractions as she tried to burrow inside of these songs for 10 days in late October 2018. ..“I hadn’t been to The Unknown, but I knew about its energy. I wanted to go sit with the material and be with it in a way that felt like a residency,” Olsen says. “I didn’t need a lot, since it was just me and a guitar. But I wanted someone else there to hold me accountable for trying different things.” ..Olsen and Harris lived for 10 days in a rental and built a daily ritual of getting coffee each morning in a nearby book store. They hiked Mount Erie, visited state parks, and strolled the empty streets of Anacortes beneath a full moon. On Halloween night, they set up a projector in the studio to watch the small-town horror movie, The Conjuring. That night, in the legendarily haunted church, they heard strange, unidentified clatters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut mostly, the sessions were casual, relaxed, and quiet, allowing Olsen the space to fully explore these feelings. The results are staggering, somehow disarmingly candid and dauntingly personal at once. Over a heavy acoustic strum, “(We Are All Mirrors)” rises from a plaintive mumble to an exorcism, Olsen wielding her vibrato like a weapon against “losing beauty.” And during “Tonight (Without You),” one of the most candid and devastating breakup songs in memory, her voice is as fragile as crystal. She searches for the strength to commit to this overdue goodbye. As she hums her way toward the end, you hear the apprehension and root for her to overcome it. ..The opener and title track—one of two songs here that did not appear on All Mirrors—is a blunt appraisal of how low Olsen got and how hard the process of pulling herself back upright was, especially when being an artist can mean turning your emotions into someone else’s entertainment. “Oh, I’ll really do the change,” she repeats at the start and finish, her voice wavering as she tries to buy the mantra she’s selling. When she hits the high, quavering notes of tender waltz “Waving, Smiling,” you can hear her push against the lump in her throat, wrestling with the worry of her past and what it means for her future. But by the time Olsen reaches the end here, her voice practically playful over the big acoustic chords of “What It Is (What It Is),” she almost sounds comfortable with the hard truth of ill-fated relationships: They are transactional in nature, a system designed so two people can at least feign satisfaction. ..When Olsen and Harris left Anacortes, they both flew home. Harris remembers getting to Los Angeles and collapsing on the floor, exhausted and elated to have done exactly what he wanted—help a friend find the space she needed to face off with daunting feelings. In North Carolina, not even a week later, Olsen began drafting arrangements for bigger versions of these songs. Now that she’d confronted those woes and identified the essence of these songs alone, she was ready to open them to other collaborators, to have them climb inside this landscape she’d now begun to understand. A month later, she was in Los Angeles to begin tracking All Mirrors. ..“For music to continue to be interesting to me, I have to switch up the process sometimes, to go back to the beginning and see myself as a writer who can lose herself in a song because I don’t have to keep track of a band,” says Olsen. “Recording songs this way reminds me of why I make them in the first place.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered alongside All Mirrors, Whole New Mess is a poignant and pointed reminder that songs are more than mere collections of words, chords, and even melodies. They are webs of moods and moments and ideas, qualities that can change from one month to the next and can say just as much as the perfect progression or an exquisite chord. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38089081979077,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-WHOLE-NEW-MESS-CLEAR-SMOKE-TRANSLUCENT-LP","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/JAG354_380px.jpg?v=1612810214"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-all-mirrors-2lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'ALL MIRRORS' 2LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong class=\"ng-tns-c14-24\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eAngel Olsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-2\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-title\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Mirrors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003clabel class=\"ng-tns-c14-24\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eLABEL:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003clabel class=\"release-date-label small mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: \u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eOct 04, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e2xLP BLACK VINYL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film - a protagonist plunging further and further into the depths. But there is also an abyss above. There is 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlsen’s flight is both upward and inward. Olsen'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, All Mirrors, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\"I guess you could say some bold and unexpected things have happened in my life\" Olsen said. \"It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past, and another part of it was waiting to exist.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Mirrors gets its claws into you on both micro and macro levels. Of course, there’s that singular vibrato, always so very close - seemingly simple, cooed phrases expand into massive ideas about the inability to love and universal loneliness. And then suddenly - huge string arrangements and four horsemen bellowing synth swells emerge, propelling the apocalyptic tenor. Throughout All Mirrors, Angel fully lets in the goth tones that always lurked at the ends of her song craft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. It is about walking away from the noise and realizing that you can have solitude and peace in your own thoughts, that your thoughts alone can be just as valid, if not more.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first step of All Mirrors, was conceiving a back-to-basics solo record, which she recorded with producer Michael Harris in Anacortes, Washington. Soon after that was completed, a more ambitious version of the album began to percolate in her mind. This second, more maximalist version of All Mirrors evolved slowly with producer John Congleton, arranger Jherek Bischoff, Swiss Army Knife musician\/arranger Ben Babbitt, and a 14 piece orchestra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\"I was determined to keep it bare bones in order to contrast with the not yet recorded full band record,\" Olsen said. \"I wanted to have versions of these songs that are completely raw and real in the way some of my earlier recordings are, so that I could have the choice to play alone or with a band.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile remaking the album with full production and new collaborators, Olsen developed a new relationship with control. And in that process, she developed an even clearer vision of herself as artist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s scary to be your own compass, to trust new faces, to be a stranger - but sometimes that’s the only way forward,\" she said. \"When you’ve been in a repetitive cycle so long it’s difficult for anyone to see you as someone who could come out of it. When you’ve made an example of yourself that people expect, some voices remind you of that example even when you know in your heart you’ve made changes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As I see it, in order for an artist to survive some kind of change, change needs to be a constant. For myself that constant change means having some kind of epiphany or clarity expressed in song. I don’t know if it’s something I inspire or attract, or if it’s just in the way I’m looking at my surroundings, but drama is something that surrounds my world and always has. I’m at least happy that I've learned to write it down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38089085124805,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-ALL-MIRRORS-2LP","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/JAG344_380px.jpg?v=1612810217"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-my-woman-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'MY WOMAN' LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-26 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngel Olsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-2\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-title\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMY WOMAN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003clabel class=\"ng-tns-c14-26\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eLABEL:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003clabel class=\"release-date-label small mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: \u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eSep 02, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eBLACK VINYL LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone reckless enough to have typecast Angel Olsen according to 2013's Burn Your Fire For No Witness is in for a rethink with her third album, MY WOMAN. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver two previous albums, she gave us reverb-shrouded poetic swoons, shadowy folk, grunge-pop band workouts and haunting, finger-picked epics. MY WOMAN is an exhilarating complement to her past work, and one for which Olsen recalibrated her writing\/recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase. As the record evolves, one gets the sense that the \"MY WOMAN\" 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, MY WOMAN speaks to everyone. That it might confound expectation is just another of its strengths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38089085550789,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-MY-WOMAN-LP","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/JAG284_380px.jpg?v=1612810222"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-limited-edition-pink-glass-translucent-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'WHOLE NEW MESS' LP (Pink Glass Translucent Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-26 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngel Olsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-2\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-title\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWHOLE NEW MESS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003clabel class=\"ng-tns-c14-26\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eLABEL:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003clabel class=\"release-date-label small mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: \u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eSep 28, 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003ePINK GLASS TRANSLUCENT VINYL LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheck out our full selection of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.brooklynvegan.com\/search?type=product\u0026amp;q=angel+olsen*\"\u003eAngel Olsen records\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love—how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape Whole New Mess, 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.At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen’s grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. “Lark,” “Summer,” “Chance”—they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is its own record with its own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of All Mirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole New Mess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries.“I had gone through this breakup, but it was so much bigger than that—I’d lost friendships, too. When you get out of a relationship, you have to examine who you are or were in all the relationships,” Olsen remembers of the moment. “I wanted to record when I was still processing these feelings. These are the personal takes, encapsulated in a moment.”Years earlier, while making My Woman at the legendary Electro-Vox in Los Angeles, Olsen struck up a sudden and deep friendship that transcended work with Michael Harris, the studio’s head engineer. She recognized a kindred spirit—someone more interested in the wider world and intense connections than his unexpected position of power in the music industry. Since those sessions, Harris and Olsen kept in close touch, visiting one another at home and catching up during long calls. “We see each other very clearly, without words,” says Harris. “And the guiding light of our working relationship has always been emotionality—what’s there, or what’s not there.”With that rapport in mind, Olsen asked Harris to help find a studio where she could sit still with these thoughts, a space where, as she puts it, “vulnerability exists.” They asked around and settled on The Unknown, the Catholic church that Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum and producer Nicholas Wilbur converted into a recording studio a decade ago in the small town of Anacortes, Washington. Situated on a small finger of land that juts toward the Pacific Ocean, Anacortes would act as kind of harbor for Olsen, limiting distractions as she tried to burrow inside of these songs for 10 days in late October 2018. “I hadn’t been to The Unknown, but I knew about its energy. I wanted to go sit with the material and be with it in a way that felt like a residency,” Olsen says. “I didn’t need a lot, since it was just me and a guitar. But I wanted someone else there to hold me accountable for trying different things.” Olsen and Harris lived for 10 days in a rental and built a daily ritual of getting coffee each morning in a nearby book store. They hiked Mount Erie, visited state parks, and strolled the empty streets of Anacortes beneath a full moon. On Halloween night, they set up a projector in the studio to watch the small-town horror movie, The Conjuring. That night, in the legendarily haunted church, they heard strange, unidentified clatters.But mostly, the sessions were casual, relaxed, and quiet, allowing Olsen the space to fully explore these feelings. The results are staggering, somehow disarmingly candid and dauntingly personal at once. Over a heavy acoustic strum, “(We Are All Mirrors)” rises from a plaintive mumble to an exorcism, Olsen wielding her vibrato like a weapon against “losing beauty.” And during “Tonight (Without You),” one of the most candid and devastating breakup songs in memory, her voice is as fragile as crystal. She searches for the strength to commit to this overdue goodbye. As she hums her way toward the end, you hear the apprehension and root for her to overcome it. The opener and title track—one of two songs here that did not appear on All Mirrors—is a blunt appraisal of how low Olsen got and how hard the process of pulling herself back upright was, especially when being an artist can mean turning your emotions into someone else’s entertainment. “Oh, I’ll really do the change,” she repeats at the start and finish, her voice wavering as she tries to buy the mantra she’s selling. When she hits the high, quavering notes of tender waltz “Waving, Smiling,” you can hear her push against the lump in her throat, wrestling with the worry of her past and what it means for her future. But by the time Olsen reaches the end here, her voice practically playful over the big acoustic chords of “What It Is (What It Is),” she almost sounds comfortable with the hard truth of ill-fated relationships: They are transactional in nature, a system designed so two people can at least feign satisfaction. When Olsen and Harris left Anacortes, they both flew home. Harris remembers getting to Los Angeles and collapsing on the floor, exhausted and elated to have done exactly what he wanted—help a friend find the space she needed to face off with daunting feelings. In North Carolina, not even a week later, Olsen began drafting arrangements for bigger versions of these songs. Now that she’d confronted those woes and identified the essence of these songs alone, she was ready to open them to other collaborators, to have them climb inside this landscape she’d now begun to understand. A month later, she was in Los Angeles to begin tracking All Mirrors. “For music to continue to be interesting to me, I have to switch up the process sometimes, to go back to the beginning and see myself as a writer who can lose herself in a song because I don’t have to keep track of a band,” says Olsen. “Recording songs this way reminds me of why I make them in the first place.”Considered alongside All Mirrors, Whole New Mess is a poignant and pointed reminder that songs are more than mere collections of words, chords, and even melodies. They are webs of moods and moments and ideas, qualities that can change from one month to the next and can say just as much as the perfect progression or an exquisite chord. 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40042277601477,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-WHOLE-NEW-MESS-PINK-LP","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/jag354.ao.wnm.lp.pink_1.jpg?v=1624905611"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-aisles-ep","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'AISLES' EP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-26 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngel Olsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-2\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-title\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAISLES \u003c\/em\u003ecovers EP\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"release-label mb-1\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003clabel class=\"ng-tns-c14-26\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eLABEL:\u003c\/label\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003clabel class=\"release-date-label small mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eRELEASE DATE: 09\/24\/21\u003c\/label\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"release-date mb-0\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eBLACK VINYL LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e__\u003cbr\u003eTracklist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGloria (Laura Branigan)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSafety Dance (Men Without Hats)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf You Leave (O.M.D.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForever Young (Alphaville)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e--\u003cbr\u003eCheck out our full selection of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.brooklynvegan.com\/search?type=product\u0026amp;q=angel+olsen*\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/shop.brooklynvegan.com\/search?type=product\u0026amp;q=angel+olsen*\"\u003eAngel Olsen records\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-24 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eWhile spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream at-home performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, an engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I’d often rent his studio, Drop of Sun, for pre-recording \/ pre tour rehearsals. Summer 2020 was tough for many reasons. But Adam and his wife Emily opened their home to me and made it a safe space to create and let go. I had an idea to record some covers and bring some of the band into the mix, or add other players. I wanted to record 80’s songs that I’d overheard walking the aisles at the grocery store, and I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general. I thought about completely changing some of the songs and turning them inside out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’d heard “Gloria” by Laura Branigan for the first time at a family Christmas gathering and I was amazed at all the aunts who got up to dance. I imagined them all dancing and laughing in slow motion, and that’s when I got the idea to slow the entire song down and try it out in this way. I felt that “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats could be reinterpreted to be about this time of quarantine and the fear of being around anyone or having too much fun. It made me wonder, is it safe to laugh or dance or be free of it all for just a moment?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI know it’s not really in my history to do something unintentional or just for the hell of it but my connection to these songs is pretty straightforward, I just wanted to have a little fun and be a little more spontaneous, and I think I needed to remember that I could!\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40107753013445,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-AISLES-EP","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/1fc3e5ff-9085-40c6-db3e-1ecdfd9ebc5c.jpg?v=1625747960"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time-2lp-pink-vinyl","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'BIG TIME' 2LP (Pink Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: 6\/3\/2022\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6\/3\/2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Pink Vinyl 2LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-inline-block grey lighten-4 release-date-container ng-tns-c14-26 ng-star-inserted\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsen’s Big Time were forged in such a whiplash.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBig Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen’s process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she’d been avoiding for some time. “Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me,” she said. Three days later, her father died and shortly after her mother passed away. 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\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. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41288751448261,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-BIG-TIME-2LP-PINK-2439","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/86d2c269-fa22-7405-0eb3-c5a6157e729f.jpg?v=1648571390"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'WHOLE NEW MESS' LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: Jagjaguwar\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8\/28\/2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8\/28\/2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Black Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen's 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career break through, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love-how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape WholeNew Mess, 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. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen's grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. \"Lark,\" \"Summer,\"Chance\"-they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is it's own record with it's own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of AllMirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole NewMess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries. Considered alongside All Mirrors, Whole New Mess is a poignant and pointed reminder that songs are more than mere collections of words, chords, and even melodies. They are webs of moods and moments and ideas, qualities that can change from one month to the next and can say just as much as the perfect progression or an exquisite chord. 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41294305460421,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-WHOLE-NEW-MESS-LP-5417","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/3836097-2586727.jpg?v=1648739983"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-halfway-home-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'HALFWAY HOME' LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: Bathetic\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9\/04\/2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content uk-container uk-padding-remove white-section\" id=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uk-container uk-padding-sides uk-margin-top uk-margin-large-bottom\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uk-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"uk-width-1-1 uk-width-medium-1-1 uk-width-large-1-1 item-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her highly-acclaimed debut Strange Cacti landed in the hands of listeners, it became very obvious the special presence ANGEL OLSEN offered to listeners. She had a fresh edge to her sound, a warm and wonderful range, and a level of skill and charm out of this world. Obviously, fans ate it up. And now here we are, a mere 2 years since her initial Bathetic release—the original cassette version of Strange Cacti. The release of Half Way Home is something everyone has been excited for. We've always wanted to see and hear what Angel brings out through her music. Half Way Home is a continuation of her elegance brought forth on Strange Cacti, a collection of both new and old music, honed and matured, thoughts revisisted. We're hearing this same beautiful girl with that same beautiful voice, this time brought up to a new level, in no doubt a growth and reach brought on by several roadtrips with the one and only Bonnie Prince Billy and crew. The work of Angel Olsen is entirely her own: a raw, glowing sound that stands out now just as much as it did in 2010. It's an emotional stew with Angel's robust voice up front, bold and engaging, coming out of the background, aching to be heard.  With the help of EMMETT KELLY (CAIRO GANG) behind the board and playing throughout the songs, Half Way Home is a natural progression showcasing the wondrous sounds of a songwriter with such a voice that is rarely found. Includes an innersleeve with lyrics and notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIDHEAVEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41326091763909,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-HALFWAY-HOME-LP-3233","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/ScreenShot2022-06-02at11.43.53AM.png?v=1654184646"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-strange-cacti-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'STRANGE CACTI' LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: Bathetic\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4\/02\/2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e St. Louis native ANGEL OLSEN has cut her teeth in Chicago the past four years crafting her music into a sincere form of folk music entirely her own. Taking influences from past artists such as Amalia Rodrigues, Timi Yuro and Helen Shapiro, as well as Persian and Turkish folk, Olsen creates something more than just run-of-the-mill “indie folk.” Her music is a true emotional release: sincere and honest. Recently, Olsen has spent time on the road and working with Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) and The Cairo gang. 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Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I’d often rent his studio, Drop of Sun, for pre-recording \/ pre tour rehearsals. Summer 2020 was tough for many reasons. But Adam and his wife Emily opened their home to me and made it a safe space to create and let go. I had an idea to record some covers and bring some of the band into the mix, or add other players. I wanted to record 80’s songs that I’d overheard walking the aisles at the grocery store, and I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general. I thought about completely changing some of the songs and turning them inside out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’d heard “Gloria” by Laura Branigan for the first time at a family Christmas gathering and I was amazed at all the aunts who got up to dance. I imagined them all dancing and laughing in slow motion, and that’s when I got the idea to slow the entire song down and try it out in this way. I felt that “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats could be reinterpreted to be about this time of quarantine and the fear of being around anyone or having too much fun. It made me wonder, is it safe to laugh or dance or be free of it all for just a moment?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI know it’s not really in my history to do something unintentional or just for the hell of it but my connection to these songs is pretty straightforward, I just wanted to have a little fun and be a little more spontaneous, and I think I needed to remember that I could!\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41647920677061,"sku":"ANGEL-OLSEN-AISLES-FROSTED-BLUE-EP-1234","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/6023\/3669\/products\/1fc3e5ff-9085-40c6-db3e-1ecdfd9ebc5c_8b5ce3fb-8ff0-4af9-977e-cc050b52a48f.jpg?v=1661196944"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-burn-you-fire-for-no-witness-lp","title":"ANGEL OLSEN 'BURN YOU FIRE FOR NO WITNESS' LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: 2\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: Black Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn her newest LP, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, Angel Olsen sings with full-throated exultation, admonition, and bold, expressive melody. With the help of producer John Congleton, her music now crackles with a churning, rumbling low end and a brighter energy.Angel Olsen began singing as a young girl in St. Louis. Her self-released debut EP, Strange Cacti, belied both that early period of discovery and her Midwestern roots. Olsen then went further on Half Way Home, her first full-length album (released on Bathetic Records), which mined essential themes while showcasing a more developed voice. Olsen dared to be more personal.After extensive touring, Olsen eventually settled for a time in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, where she created \"a collection of songs grown in a year of heartbreak, travel, and transformation,\" that would become Burn Your Fire For No Witness. Many of them remain essentially unchanged from their bare beginnings. In leaving them so intact, a more self-assured Olsen allows us to be in the room with her at the very genesis of these songs. 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From the lo-fi, sparse folk-melancholy of her 2010 EP, Strange Cacti, to the electrified, polished rock 'n' roll bursting from 2016's beloved and acclaimed MY WOMAN, Olsen has refused to succumb to a single genre, expectation, or vision. Impossible to pin down, Olsen navigates the world with her remarkable, symphonic voice and a propensity for narrative, her music growing into whatever shape best fits to tell the story. Phases is a collection of Olsen's work culled from the past several years, including a number of never-before-released tracks. \"Fly On Your Wall,\" previously contributed to the Bandcamp-only, anti-Trump fundraiser Our First 100 Days, opens Phases, before seamlessly slipping into \"Special,\" a brand new song from the MY WOMAN recording sessions. 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