Angel Olsen - Big Time

Released 3rd June 2022.

SK says: "After the striking, cavernous 'All Mirrors', the singer-songwriter delivers a song-focused, country-inflected set that, despite the grief which inspires it, is fiercely resilient and optimistic. Immaculately produced by the great Jonathan Wilson and Olsen herself."

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 Olsens 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 Olsens process of coming