Angel Olsen Indierock | Alternative 20 Items

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Bethetic)

Half Way Home

26,99 €*

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After her highly-acclaimed debut Strange Cacti landed in the hands of listeners, it became very obvious the special presence Angel Olsen offered to listeners. She had a fresh edge to her sound, a warm and wonderful range, and a level of skill and charm out of this world. Obviously, fans ate it up. And now here we are, a mere 2 years since her initial Bathetic release—the original cassette version of Strange Cacti. The release of Half Way Home is something everyone has been excited for. We've always wanted to see and hear what Angel brings out through her music. Half Way Home is a continuation of her elegance brought forth on Strange Cacti, a collection of both new and old music, honed and matured, thoughts revisisted. We're hearing this same beautiful girl with that same beautiful voice, this time brought up to a new level, in no doubt a growth and reach brought on by several roadtrips with the one and only Bonnie Prince Billy and crew. The work of Angel Olsen is entirely her own: a raw, glowing sound that stands out now just as much as it did in 2010. It's an emotional stew with Angel's robust voice up front, bold and engaging, coming out of the background, aching to be heard. With the help of Emmett Kelly (cairo Gang) behind the board and playing throughout the songs, Half Way Home is a natural progression showcasing the wondrous sounds of a songwriter with such a voice that is rarely found. Includes an innersleeve with lyrics and notes.

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My Woman Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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An intuitively smart, warmly communicative, & fearlessly generous record.

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Forever Means Pink Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Last year's Big Time 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 Forever Means collects songs from the Big Time sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen's words, "in search of something else." "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." `Forever'", says Olsen, "remains curious while trying also to be kind and honest." All this packs into the four precious songs that comprise Forever Means, 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.

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Forever Means Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Big Time

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Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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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. Then 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. 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. "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.

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Big Time Pink Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Big Time Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

27,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Big Time Pink Vinyl Edition & Tote Bag Bundle

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Aisles

16,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2021 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Aisles

22,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Song Of The Lark And Other Far Memories

4LP | 2021 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

63,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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4xLP deluxe box set including Angel Olsen's latest two albums, All Mirrors and Whole New Mess, as well as an LP of bonus audio. Also includes 40 page book including photo shoot outtakes, pictures from the recording of these albums, handwritten lyrics, and items of meaning to Angel. Originally conceived as a double album, All Mirrors and Whole New Mess were distinct parts of a larger whole, twin stars that each expressed something bigger and bolder than Angel Olsen had ever made. Released in 2019, All Mirrors is massive in scope and sound, tracing Olsen's ascent into the unknown, to a place of true selfacceptance, no matter how dark, or difficult, or seemingly lonely. All Mirrors is colossal, moving, dramatic in an Old Hollywood manner. Recorded before All Mirrors but released after, Whole New Mess is the bones and beginnings of the songs that would rewrite Olsen's story. This is Angel Olsen in her classic style: stark solo performances, echoes and open spaces, her voice both whispered and enormous. All Mirrors and Whole New Mess presented the two glorious extremes of an artist who, in these songs, became new by embracing herself entirely. Now, with Songs of the Lark_ And Other Far Memories, these twin stars become a constellation with the full extent of the songs' iterations: all the alternate takes, b-sides, remixes and reimaginings are here, together. Alongside, a 40-page book collection tells a similar story, not just through outtakes and unseen photos but through the smaller, evocative details: handwritten lyrics, a favorite necklace, a beaded chandelier. As if it could be more plainly stated (there's nothing more), Angel adds one cover here: a loving, assertive rendition of Roxy Music's "More Than This." It is a definitive collection, not just of these songs but of their revelations and their writer, from their simplest origins to their mightiest realizations.

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Whole New Mess

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whole New Mess Clear Smoke Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

26,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whole New Mess Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

All Mirrors

16,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The 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.

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All Mirrors Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

27,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Phases Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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How 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.

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Burn Your Fire For No Witness

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)