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, grungepop 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 its
strengths.
TRACK LIST
SIDE A:
1. Intern
2. Never Be Mine
3. Shut Up Kiss Me
4. Give It Up
5. Not Gonna Kill You
6. Heart Shaped Face
SIDE B:
7. Sister
8. Those Were The Days
9. Woman
10. Pops
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, grungepop 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 its
strengths.
TRACK LIST
SIDE A:
1. Intern
2. Never Be Mine
3. Shut Up Kiss Me
4. Give It Up
5. Not Gonna Kill You
6. Heart Shaped Face
SIDE B:
7. Sister
8. Those Were The Days
9. Woman
10. Pops