Angel Olsen

Big Time


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Limited 2LP: Opaque Pink Vinyl

2LP: Standard Black Vinyl

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Sister Ray Says: Haven't heard the album yet but if 'Like I Used To' feat. Sharon Van Etten is anything to go by, this is gonnae be a big one. 

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, hurdle she’d been avoiding for some time. “Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me,” she said. Three days later, her father died and shortly after her mother passed away" The shards of this grief—the shortening of her chance to finally be seen more fully by her parents— are scattered throughout the album. 

Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio, recording this incredibly wise and tender new album. Loss 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.

Tracklist

Side A
1. All The Good Times
2. Big Time 
Side B
1. Dream Thing
2. Ghost On
3. All The Flowers
Side C
1. Right Now
2. This Is How It Works
Side D
1. Go Home 
2. Through The Fires
3. Chasing The Sun

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