Artist's albums
Forever Means
2023 · EP
Forever Means
2023 · single
Nothing's Free
2023 · single
Big Time
2022 · single
Big Time
2022 · album
Something on Your Mind
2022 · single
Aisles
2021 · EP
Like I Used To (Acoustic Version)
2021 · single
Like I Used To
2021 · single
Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories
2021 · album
Don't (Just) Vote
2020 · single
Mr. Lonely
2020 · single
Whole New Mess
2020 · album
New Love Cassette (Mark Ronson Remix)
2020 · single
All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel remix)
2020 · single
All Mirrors
2019 · album
Phases
2017 · album
MY WOMAN
2016 · album
Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Deluxe Edition)
2014 · album
Hi-Five
2014 · single
Forgiven/Forgotten
2013 · single
Sleepwalker
2013 · single
Half Way Home
2012 · album
Miracle of Love: A Bathetic Records Compilation
2012 · compilation
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Biography
Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary these states may 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 whiplash. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness is tempered by a profound 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 avoided 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 are scattered throughout the album. Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio recording this 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 energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.