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Wednesday, 7 December 2016

HSD Top 10 Albums 2016 - No 4

4 Angel Olsen – My Woman


Angel Olsen is utterly mesmerizing, entrancing you to enter her world and discover it’s hazy warmth, like a sepia tinged photograph. The mood gently broods and sways, builds and drops, never fully lets rip but always holds something back, leaving you wanting more. She takes you to the edge and then slams the brakes on. Her vocals on the track Woman have an ethereal ambience, and the album as a whole, has a languid, other dimensional atmosphere, which reminds me - and those who remember the early 90s may understand - of the melancholy sense of Twin Peaks. A sweet layer of fuzz draped over her voice always hints at nostalgia, a sentiment of fondly remembering times past and moments shared, never to be regained. Discovering My Woman by Angel Olsen, with its exquisite songs and mellifluous vocals, like picturing a scene through frosted glass, was a lovely surprise and I am looking forward to seeing her play at The Roundhouse in May 2017.

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