Angel Olsen - My Woman

Angel Olsen Explores a Gamut of Emotions on My Woman: Singer-Songwriter's Breakout Album Teems with Stirring Vocals, Atmospheric Backdrops, and Era-Transcendent SoulfulnessReissued in Audiophile-Grade Sound in Celebration of It's 10th Anniversary: Strictly Limited to 2,000 Numbered Copies, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 33RPM LP Plays with Striking Detail, Richness, and Definition'I dare you to understand,' Angel Olsen belts to the heavens above on My Woman, 'what makes me a woman.' The singer-songwriter effectively lays out those characteristics in narrative and sonic form throughout her breakthrough record. Ranked amid the 'Best Albums of 2016' by Pitchfork, NPR, NME, Mojo, Rolling Stone, and other respected outlets, My Woman is an emotionally bracing exploration of identity, love, and hope seen through the lens of one of the leading voices of her generation. Her songs teem with atmosphere and detail. Her voice communicates with words but just as much, if not more so, with nuance. Her lyrics and arrangements showcase seamless symmetry, and signal an era-independent timelessness that couches them as contemporary and classic.Sourced from the original masters and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's 10th anniversary 180g 33RPM LP reissue presents My Woma (more...)

2016 release. 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