Angel Olsen - My Woman

Just this my first full listening, excellent album. She's really unparalleled, very unique and versatile voice.

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her pr team certainly went hard on this album 

  On 9/2/2016 at 7:13 PM, keanu reeves said:

her pr team certainly went hard on this album 

Yeah that's state of 2016 indie rock though

:/

It really makes me want to ignore the record altogether unfortunately.

Not really feeling this one, still loving Half Way Home and Burn Your Fire big time though.

Burn your fire had a couple of really good tunes, but nothing really stood out for me on this one.

It doesn't pull on my heartstrings as much as her past work but I still think it's good. Going to probably be more "critically acclaimed" by the tastemakers but you know, 仕方が無い

I can't let the PR bs sway my opinion. I just ignore it. That said I know people who wade in it (some are music writers) and it's a weird thing to behold. One of them actually offered me some beers and cash to write a review of this album for a decent size digital media outlet (Alexa rank around 4900) but I respectfully declined. Wasn't up for it on many levels.

Damn I haven't listened to anything since Strange Cacti and the one after that which I don't remember much of. Got some catching up to do I guess.

Loved Strange Cacti.

kinda like her, but this whole album sounds like fake

new album "All Mirrors" to be released October 4

Really liked All Mirrors, reminiscent of Kate Bush somehow. Can't listen to the new single atm, looking forward to it though.

These new tracks have some giant "Wall of Sound" production going on.  I'm pretty stoked for this new album.

^ Yeah same here, I was worried she'd go into safer synth-pop territory but instead she's managed to get more accessible / poppy while still sounding novel and unique. Kate Bush gets thrown around a lot as a comparison but I agree there's a similar sense of Olsen carving her own niche sound wise and maintaining this very sincere ethos while doing so. 

Kate Bush gets thrown as a (huge) compliment I think