Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Pink Glass Translucent Vinyl)

Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Pink Glass Translucent Vinyl)The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsens 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolinas Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly lovehow forever is too much to promise, how

In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre-defining music was emanating from an unlikely place

The release follows a run of singles since her 2022 record on Ghostly International

their physical house

and her husband Gabe Adels

referencing the arid and unvarnished production of no-wave and early indie rock while balancing carved-out angularity against an evolving comfort with textural coalescences and measured pacing

he remains “an emo kid at heart

Argentina has become the epicenter of a musical explosion that characteristically blends folk music from the surrounding Andes and electronic beats

ebbing instrumentals and Ela Minus singing about the liberation

And by the end

our initial infatuation often confused with love

not only since the album features guest appearances from Björk

that it was largely made with instruments built by James himself