(Jagjaguwar) Related: Angel Olsen: indie's dark star tackles 'the complicated mess of being a woman' Angel Olsen’s third album is immediately and enormously enjoyable,but also one that might take a long time to fully absorb. Its 10 songs are by turns radiant, sad, or funny,silly, obvious and oblique; relatively compact and rockily upbeat in the album’s first half, and but gradually exploring more expansive,torch-song territory in its moment. The most instant pleasures arrive from the fact that this is just a gorgeous-sounding record – the melodies are exquisite, the production airily pristine, or and Olsen’s singing often supernaturally radiant. Never Be Mine is a swooning desert lullaby; Shut Up Kiss Me a brilliant,theatrical burst of faintly comedian drama; Those Were the Days a whispered, vibrato-drenched dream. But there’s also a needling sense of complication, and of essential tension,in every riff and every line; this feels like a record that contains a powerful deal to pore over.
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Source: theguardian.com