Saturday, June 25, 2022

Angel Olsen - Big Time

There's a comfort and expansiveness here that envelopes the entire record, continuing Angel Olsen's great run - Burn Your Fire For No Witness, My Woman, All Mirrors and now this one. The warmth of Big Time's first section, leading off with "All The Good Times" and "Big Time", sets a tone and reminds me of Margo Price in its contemporary folk-tinged country, in that way of idiosyncratic personal reference points. And threads of that continue as things get moodier, reaching a mid-album high point with "All The Flowers" which is like an escapee from Roberta Flack's 60s/70s catalogue and "Right Now". All through, in a slow burning way, it's excellent.