{"title":"Angel Olsen","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom intimate folk recordings to expansive indie rock, explore Angel Olsen's acclaimed catalog on vinyl and CD.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time-pink-vinyl","title":"Angel Olsen- Big Time (Pink Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited double pink colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Big 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. After that tearful but relieving conversation, she celebrated with her partner, their friends, oysters, and wine. Three days later, her father died; his funeral became the occasion for Olsen to introduce her partner to her family. Though she was fearful their presence as a newly out queer couple would be \"an additional symbol of loss,\" those days went peacefully, yet only two weeks later Olsen got the call that her mother was in the ER. Hospice came soon after, and a second funeral came quickly on the heels of the first. Another trip back to St. Louis, another grief to face, another deepening and intensification of this still-new love. Three weeks after her mother's funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender album.\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42817328447709,"sku":"656605242439","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/products\/hjxyl8qfwu0vr6unpymw.jpg?v=1731255559"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-phases-1","title":"Angel Olsen- Phases (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. 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. Both \"How Many Disasters\" and \"Sans\" are first-time listens: home-recorded demos that have never been released, leaning heavily on Olsen's arresting croon and lonesome guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43057070604509,"sku":"656605231419","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/products\/fmoay19h1lrub1ppon76.jpg?v=1731269271"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-forever-means-baby-pink-vinyl-preorder","title":"Angel Olsen- Forever Means (Baby Pink Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: 4\/14\/23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast year’s \u003cem\u003eBig Time\u003c\/em\u003e 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 realization that there is no finish line, no destination or static end point to life while you’re living it, and \u003cem\u003eForever Means\u003c\/em\u003e collects songs from the \u003cem\u003eBig Time\u003c\/em\u003e sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen’s words, “in search of something else.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was somewhere traveling,” says Olsen, “stopped for a few days and wandering the city, and I was thinking ‘what does ‘forever’ really mean? What are the things I’m seeking in friendship or love, and how can ‘forever’ be attainable if we’re always changing?’” Sitting with the reality of that entropy, Olsen realized “maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself, never letting yourself think you’re finished learning or exploring.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e, says Olsen, “remains curious while trying also to be kind and honest.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll this packs into the four precious songs that comprise \u003cem\u003eForever Means\u003c\/em\u003e, songs from Olsen’s roads traveled and the ones ahead. “Nothing’s free \/ like breaking free” Olsen sings, comfortable with the costs of her clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43750687178973,"sku":"656605243436","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/products\/v7fddhc86xxjibktegnn.jpg?v=1731331422"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-forever-means-preorder","title":"Angel Olsen- Forever Means (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: 4\/14\/23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast year’s \u003cem\u003eBig Time\u003c\/em\u003e 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 realization that there is no finish line, no destination or static end point to life while you’re living it, and \u003cem\u003eForever Means\u003c\/em\u003e collects songs from the \u003cem\u003eBig Time\u003c\/em\u003e sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen’s words, “in search of something else.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was somewhere traveling,” says Olsen, “stopped for a few days and wandering the city, and I was thinking ‘what does ‘forever’ really mean? What are the things I’m seeking in friendship or love, and how can ‘forever’ be attainable if we’re always changing?’” Sitting with the reality of that entropy, Olsen realized “maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself, never letting yourself think you’re finished learning or exploring.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e, says Olsen, “remains curious while trying also to be kind and honest.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll this packs into the four precious songs that comprise \u003cem\u003eForever Means\u003c\/em\u003e, songs from Olsen’s roads traveled and the ones ahead. “Nothing’s free \/ like breaking free” Olsen sings, comfortable with the costs of her clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43750687244509,"sku":"656605243412","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/products\/vnrgfbbnorssihyonh8t.jpg?v=1731331428"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time-clear-vinyl","title":"Angel Olsen- Big Time (Clear Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Limited Ed Clear Pressing, available to indie stores for first time. 2XLP, Trigatefold jacket w\/ 20 page booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ThinkIndie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44357803999453,"sku":"656605242484","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/656605242484_cvr.jpg?v=1727306120"},{"product_id":"something-on-your-mind-iex","title":"Angel Olsen\/Karen Dalton- Something On Your Mind (Indie Exclusive Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDidn't you see, you can't make it without ever even trying? - Dino Valenti, lyrics from \"Something On Your Mind\"\r\nLight in the Attic is honored to be releasing Angel Olsen's gorgeous cover of Karen Dalton's moving interpretation of 'Something On Your Mind,' a song that enduringly underscores the unspoken thoughts, painful truths and buried emotions between people and within oneself. Thematically, the song is universal and resonates as much with listeners today emerging from a post-pandemic world as it did for Karen Dalton when she first recorded it in 1971 for her second and final studio album, In My Own Time. \"'Something On Your Mind' for me is about letting yourself face something that keeps setting you back,\" says Angel Olsen, who has come to the forefront of Karen Dalton appreciators around the world, both in her contribution of this new interpretation and as the voice of Dalton's personal journals in the recent documentary, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. As part of the latest installment of LITA's long-running cover series, Angel's cover is found on the a-side, while the flip includes Karen's 1971 version.\r\nPrevious singles in Light in the Attic's Covers Series includes musician, poet, and author Leslie Winer collaborating with Manchester-born composer Maxwell Sterling on a truly gorgeous cover of Tim Buckley's 1967 forlorn love song \"Once I Was,\" Bill Callahan \u0026amp; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy covering Johnnie Frierson's beautiful and inspiring tune \"Miracles,\" BADBADNOTGOOD with Jonah Yano covering \"Key To Love (Is Understanding)\" by Milwaukee's funk\/soul pioneers Majestics, Charles Bradley \u0026amp; the Menahan Street Band covering Sixto Rodriguez, Mac DeMarco covering Haruomi Hosono's \"Honey Moon,\" and Iggy Pop with the Zig Zags transforming Betty Davis' dirty funk into a heavy Sabbath grind, amongst many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething on Your Mind - Angel Olsen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Something on Your Mind - Karen Dalton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Light in the Attic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005441073373,"sku":"826853455770","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4035963-2770474.jpg?v=1727247692"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-my-woman-1","title":"Angel Olsen- My Woman (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. Anyone 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 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. Over 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 it's strengths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Never Be Mine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shut Up Kiss Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Give It Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Not Gonna Kill You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heart Shaped Face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sister\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Those Were the Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BWSCD, INC.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005557891293,"sku":"656605228419","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3081008-2756336.jpg?v=1727244150"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-all-mirrors","title":"Angel Olsen- All Mirrors (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e All Mirrors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Too Easy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New Love Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Spring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What It Is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Impasse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tonight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Endgame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005873021149,"sku":"656605234410","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3709407-2416544.jpg?v=1727234637"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-aisles","title":"Angel Olsen- Aisles (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream athome 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. I'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? I 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGloria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eyes Without A Face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Safety Dance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If You Leave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Forever Young\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005992886493,"sku":"656605241210","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3990869-2729267.jpg?v=1727230407"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-burn-your-fire-for-no-witness-2","title":"Angel Olsen- Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. On her 2014 album 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfucktheworld\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Forgiven\/Forgotten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hi-Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e White Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e High ; Wild\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lights Out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Iota\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dance Slow Decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Enemy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Windows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006324170973,"sku":"656605224411","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2397812.jpg?v=1727222620"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess","title":"Angel Olsen- Whole New Mess (Vinyl)","description":"\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 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhole New Mess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Too Easy (Bigger Than Us)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (New Love) Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (We Are All Mirrors)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (Summer Song)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Waiving Smiling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tonight (Without You)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lark Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Impasse (Workin' for the Name)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chance (Forever Love)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What It Is (What It Is)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006594212061,"sku":"656605235417","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3836097-2586727.jpg?v=1727214161"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time","title":"Angel Olsen- Big Time (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Big 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. After that tearful but relieving conversation, she celebrated with her partner, their friends, oysters, and wine. Three days later, her father died; his funeral became the occasion for Olsen to introduce her partner to her family. Though she was fearful their presence as a newly out queer couple would be \"an additional symbol of loss,\" those days went peacefully, yet only two weeks later Olsen got the call that her mother was in the ER. Hospice came soon after, and a second funeral came quickly on the heels of the first. Another trip back to St. Louis, another grief to face, another deepening and intensification of this still-new love. Three weeks after her mother's funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll the Good Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Big Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dream Thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ghost on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e All the Flowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Right Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e This Is How It Works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Go Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Through the Fires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chasing the Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45007091925213,"sku":"656605242415","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4079970-2813730.jpg?v=1727195772"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-presents-cosmic-waves-volume-1","title":"Angel Olsen Presents- Cosmic Waves Volume 1 (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, Angel Olsen quietly formed somethingscosmic, a new imprint and a home for Olsen to have \"the flexibility to release when and how I want to with the help from my longtime partners at Jagjaguwar.\" Somethingscosmic's second release, 'Cosmic Waves Volume 1' is a compilation reimagined as a dialogue; side A features artists chosen by Olsen, with each artist choosing their own song for the collection. Side B is a collection of songs from the same artists, but chosen by Olsen and recorded by her. Each, unsurprisingly, illuminates a star in the constellation of talents that make Angel Olsen such a spectacular and enduring artist. Hearing Olsen refract the artists' songs back to them reveals not just the depth of Olsen's imagination, but the multiple masters at work across the collection as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"As someone that emerged into the music scene through a small tape label,\" says Olsen, \"I've wanted to continue the spirit of discovery and of my debut release, 'Strange Cacti', while supporting and collaborating with artists and friends whose music I have been moved by. I feel there is something unique and special about covering another artist's song,\" she continues. \"We all make it our own, or we try to, but I personally always learn something new about the process when I'm engaging someone else's words and melodies in such a close way. Time and again I find that putting myself into various different styles of songs can lead to new ways of thinking and creating.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe artists on \"Cosmic Waves Volume 1\" draw from a sprawling, myriad sounds, eras and inspirations. Poppy Jean Crawford's magnetic growl and guitar-god heaviness; Coffin Prick's reckless, psychedelic fuzz; Sarah Grace White's hypnotic voice and melody; Maxim Ludwig's expert minimalism; and Camp Saint Helene's beautiful, big sky folk. \"Thank you for listening and supporting this experiment,\" Olsen says. \"If you like what you hear, please support these artists by buying some of their music, merch, a ticket to their show, or telling your friends about them. It goes a long way. Love, Angel\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BWSCD, INC.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45918027972829,"sku":"656605247717","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4378746-3271572.jpg?v=1733415269"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-clear-smoke-translucent-lp","title":"Angel Olsen- Whole New Mess [Clear Smoke Translucent LP] (Vinyl)","description":"\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 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 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 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\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhole New Mess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToo Easy (Bigger Than Us)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(New Love) Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(We Are All Mirrors)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(Summer Song)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWaiving, Smiling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTonight (Without You)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLark Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImpasse (Workin’ For The Name)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChance (Forever Love)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat It Is (What It Is)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 656605235431\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Jagjaguwar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46973941711069,"sku":"656605235431","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3836100-2586729.jpg?v=1762831775"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-burn-your-fire-for-no-witness-3","title":"Angel Olsen- Burn Your Fire for No Witness (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn her 2014 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfucktheworld\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgiven\/Forgotten\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHi-Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh \u0026amp; Wild\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLights Out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIota\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDance Slow Decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnemy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWindows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 656605224428\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Jagjaguwar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46982665666781,"sku":"656605224428","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2397806.jpg?v=1762923892"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-phases-2","title":"Angel Olsen- Phases (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow do you best describe Angel Olsen? 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. Both \"How Many Disasters\" and \"Sans\" are first-time listens: home-recorded demos that have never been released, leaning heavily on Olsen's arresting croon and lonesome guitar. The B-sides compilation is both a testament to Olsen's enormous musical range and a tidy compilation of tracks that have previously been elusive in one way or another. Balancing tenacity and tenderness, Phases acts as a deep-dive for longtime fans, as well as a fitting introduction to Olsen's sprawling sonics for the uninitiated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFly On Your Wall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnly With You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Right Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSweet Dreams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalifornia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTougher Than the Rest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Many Disasters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMay as Well\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndless Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46983971897565,"sku":"656605231426","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3734648.jpg?v=1762926442"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time-1","title":"Angel Olsen- Big Time (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThen 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\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“I can’t say that I’m sorry \/ when I don’t feel so wrong anymore,” the record begins, her voice softer and more open than ever, as if she’s singing through a hard won smile. “All the Good Times”, a twangy banger with nods to JJ Cale, starts the album on a triumphant and bright note. The title song, “Big Time”, follows and continues the warm optimism. “Guess I had to be losin’ to get here on time,” she sings, a fearless love song co-written with her partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Some experiences just make you feel as though you’re five years old, no matter how wise or adult you think you are,” she writes of that time. After that tearful but relieving conversation, she celebrated with her partner, their friends, oysters, and wine. “Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThree days later, her father died; his funeral became the occasion for Olsen to introduce her partner to her family. Though she was fearful their presence as a newly out queer couple would be “an additional symbol of loss,” those days went peacefully, yet only two weeks later Olsen got the call that her mother was in the ER. Hospice came soon after, and a second funeral came quickly on the heels of the first. Another trip back to St. Louis, another grief to face, another deepening and intensification of this still-new love.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe shards of this grief—the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents—are scattered throughout the album. “It’s a hard time again,” she sings on “This is How It Works”, pushing against the irrevocability of death, “Tell me a story that will make me forget.” “Go Home”, which begins with an almost numbed calm, slowly builds up to a wailing that comes up straight from the ground: “I want to go home, go back to small things. I don’t belong here. Nobody knows me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“You can’t plan grief, you can’t organize it or schedule it or know how you’ll feel when it comes. It just happens, and when it does sometimes it’s not what you thought it would be.” Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLoss 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\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePlayful bits of Tammy Wynette and Kitty Wells are here, too, but so are the complex orchestrations of her genre-bending 2019 record, All Mirrors. While that record was full of dramatic shifts and twists, here the surprises come in their simplicity—a slow swell of strings, instrumentation that cycles like a storm, or sparkling horns in a light-flooded break-up ballad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the spritely nature of her last EP, Aisles, may have signaled Olsen’s turn deeper into the electronic direction of her last All Mirrors, there’s hardly a synth in sight here. Jonathan Wilson, served as co-producer and also mixed the tracks, while Drew Erickson played piano, organ, and scored the string arrangements. Emily Elhaj, Olsen’s longtime bandmate, was a consistent collaborator as well, on the bass throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“And I can’t fit into the past that you’re used to, I refuse to,” she sings as a wraithlike piano scaffolds her hopeful voice on “Ghost On”. “Forget the old dreams,” she rejoices on “Go Home”, “I got a new thing.” Darkness inherently suggests depth, but it takes a much wiser writer to find meaning and complexity in the luminous place that Big Time occupies. “Chasing the Sun” ends the record in a smiling, romantic place, a verdant crescendo rising as she pines: “Write a postcard to you \/ when you’re in the other room\/ I’m just writing to say that I can’t find my clothes \/ If you’re lookin for something to do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe burning of her earliest work is still here, of course, but this time she’s “freed from the longing \/ for one moment to last” and she’s ready to “walk through the fires \/ of all earthly desires.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e—Catherine Lacey \u003cbr\u003eOaxaca, February 2022\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll The Good Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBig Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDream Thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGhost On\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll The Flowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRight Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Is How It Works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough The Fires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChasing The Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46984373534941,"sku":"656605242422","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4079971-2812502.jpg?v=1762927232"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-2","title":"Angel Olsen- Whole New Mess (CD)","description":"\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 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 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 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. 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