(Wednesday) May 24, 2017 - 19:00
Roundhouse - Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road (Map)
132 people attended
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WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
Angel Olsen
http://www.birdonthewire.net/events/angelolsen-roundhouse
Anyone reckless enough to have typecast Angel Olsen according to 2013’s Burn Your Fire For No Witness is in for a sizeable surprise with her third album, My Woman. The crunchier, blown-out production of the former is gone, but that fire is now burning wilder. Her disarming, timeless voice is even more front-and-centre than before, and the overall production is lighter. Yet the strange, raw power and slowly unspooling incantations of her previous efforts remain, so anyone who might attempt to pigeonhole Olsen as either an elliptical outsider or a pop personality is going to be wrong whichever way they choose – Olsen continues to reign over the land between the two with a haunting obliqueness and sophisticated grace.
Over her two previous albums, she’s given us reverb-shrouded poetic swoons, shadowy folk, grunge-pop band workouts and haunting, finger-picked epics; My Woman is an exhilarating complement to her past work. As the record evolves, you get 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. If ever there was any pressure in the recording process, it’s totally undetectable in the result. An intuitively smart, warmly communicative and fearlessly generous record, My Woman speaks to everyone. That it might confound expectation is just another of its strengths.
After selling out her show at KOKO this October, Angel Olsen returns in 2017 for her biggest headline show in London yet at Roundhouse. Tickets go on general sale Friday 30th September at 9am.
http://angelolsen.com/
Doors 7:00pm
Tickets £18.50 +bf adv. available from http://birdonthewire.seetickets.com/go/angelolsenroundhouse
Roundhouse
Chalk Farm Rd, London, NW1 8EH
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/