Angel Olsen Announces New Album, Shares New Song “Whole New Mess”: Listen
Angel Olsen has announced a new album called Whole New Mess, the first material she’s recorded and released without any bandmates since 2012’s Half Way Home. It’s out August 28 via Jagjaguwar. Watch a video for “Whole New Mess” and check out the tracklist below.
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Olsen recorded Whole New Mess in October 2018 at The Unknown, the church-turned-studio run by Phil Elverum and Nicholas Wilbur in Anacortes, Washington. The album features more intimate versions of several songs that appeared on last year’s All Mirrors. Olsen explained her approach in a brief statement:
I had gone through this breakup, but it was so much bigger than that—I’d lost friendships, too. When you get out of a relationship, you have to examine who you are or were in all the relationships. I wanted to record when I was still processing these feelings. These are the personal takes, encapsulated in a moment.
Whole New Mess:
01 Whole New Mess
02 Too Easy (Bigger Than Us)
03 (New Love) Cassette
04 (We Are All Mirrors)
05 (Summer Song)
06 Waving, Smiling
07 Tonight (Without You)
08 Lark Song
09 Impasse (Workin’ for the Name)
10 Chance (Forever Love)
11 What It Is (What It Is)
Angel Olsen: Whole New Mess
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