My Woman

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"My Woman" is the highly anticipated second album by the queen of American indie, following the excellent "Burn Your Fire For No Witness". Anyone careless enough to have pigeonholed Angel Olsen with her last album, "2013's Burn Your Fire For No Witness", is likely to be in for the surprise of their life when listening to "My Woman". It’s true, her latest releases come across more as poetic reverberations, dark folk, grunge pop, epic and haunting. "My Woman" is an exhilarating complement to her previous work, on which she refines her way of writing and recording, with a brand-new approach to the songwriting phase. The songs are more punchy, pop/rock-oriented, longer, deeper and more thoughtful. It is a more complex work that calls for vocal plurality, and Olsen has in fact expanded her range, and placed her voice front and center on this album. Between the album title and a few tracks titled Sister or Woman, one is tempted to read a gender message into "My Woman". She explains that the album is not really a feminist manifesto, but that at times it instead deals with themes touching on the sometimes complicated situation of women. A piano regular, she has swapped it for a synth and/or mellotron, as you may have noticed on "Intern". She worked on "My Woman" with producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Santigold) and also opted for a live recording at the historic Vox Studio, and invites guitarist Seth Kauffman to join her core lineup: Emily Elhaj on bass, drummer Joshua Jaeger and guitarist Stewart Bronaugh.