Three cuts into Angel Olsen’s new John Congleton-produced record, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, and it’s shaping up beautifully. From the blistering “Forgiven/Forgotten” to garage meets ’60s pop of “Hi-Five” comes this hypnotic tune, “White Fire.” Fans of Half Way Home and past solo tours should find the intimate, solo-electric turn familiar. It’s a 7-minute, sullen sigh … Read more
A second taste of Angel Olsen’s new record just hit, this time with a through-line bridging her last record and those Coyne/Krause sets she played with Will Oldham in ’12. Where the the tremolo-fuzz guitars and early-’60s vocal meet here recall the Chi-lites by way of Helen Shapiro, both of whom Olsen mentioned as influences in … Read more
We’ve heard Angel Olsen explore gritty terrain before, as far back as 2010’s punk-rock vision of Kevin Coyne and Dagmar Krause with Will Oldham and as recent as this year’s “Sweet Dreams” single. But the direction of her latest cut still comes as a welcome surprise, given the breakout success of last year’s still raw yet … Read more