{"id":37153,"date":"2022-06-05T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/review-angel-olsen-focuses-on-grief-and-new-love-on-latest-offering-big-time\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T02:33:06","slug":"review-angel-olsen-focuses-on-grief-and-new-love-on-latest-offering-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/review-angel-olsen-focuses-on-grief-and-new-love-on-latest-offering-big-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Angel Olsen Focuses on Grief and New Love on Latest Offering, ‘Big Time’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Angel Olsen More than a decade into singer \/ songwriter Angel Olsen’s career, fans have come to expect intensely personal introspection and reflection in her work. After all, she initially recorded for the Bathetic Records label.<\/p>\n Following Whole New Mess<\/em>in 2020, basically a solo reworking of most of the songs from the lush and well-received All Mirrors<\/em>in 2019, she returns with a fuller yet intimate collection heavily focused on loss (both of her parents died just before recording started) and new beginnings experienced after coming out as queer.<\/p>\n It’s a tricky balance that Olsen pulls off with her usual adept professionalism. A noticeable swing into subtle country on some selections is heightened by Spencer Cullum’s pedal steel work. But it’s Jonathan Wilson’s production that frames these slices of internal meditation, particularly on tracks like “Right Now.” It opens as Olsen’s lone voice with its hint of Patsy Cline sophistication accompanies her stark acoustic strumming, gradually adding instruments until an intense climax of dissonant guitars, horns, and strings collide as she sings If we’re apart or here together I need to be myself<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Big Time<\/em>
(Jagjaguwar)
4 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n