Angel Olsen

Angel Olsen – Forever Means (EP) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 16:02 minutes | 333 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar

Last year’s Big Time brought Angel Olsen to a deeper, truer sense of self than ever before. 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 Forever Means collects songs from the Big Time sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen’s words, “in search of something else.”

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Angel Olsen – Big Time (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:48 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar

Fresh 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.

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Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar

Angel Olsen’s spare, echoey Whole New Mess is a prequel of sorts, the blueprints that led to the ornate orchestral pop of her acclaimed 2019 release All Mirrors. Recorded in a converted church in rural Washington state, the new album contains demos of nine songs that appeared on All Mirrors, some with different lyrics or titles, as well as two previously unreleased originals.
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Angel Olsen – Cosmic Stream 1: Live at Echo Mountain Recording (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Singer-Songwriter, ‎Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)

Official download of the Angel Olsen live stream 06/18/20 from Echo Mountain. For the first in this series, Angel Olsen will be performing Half Way Home, her debut album, (almost) in full in addition to other rarities, streaming from the Church at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC.
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Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:32 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar

The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film. 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. 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. “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.”
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Angel Olsen – Aisles (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:15 minutes | 286 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar

Angel return with a 5 track EP of covers. It includes songs originally by Billy Idol, Laura Branigan, Men Without Hats, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and Alphaville.

While 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.
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