Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen at Glasslands.jpg
Angel Olsen performing at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, November 12, 2012
Background information
Born (1987-01-22) 22 January 1987 (age 37)
Origin St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Genres Folk, folk rock, indie rock
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 2009–present
Labels Jagjaguwar, Bathetic
Associated acts Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, Cap'n Jazz, Wilco
Website www.angelolsen.com

Angel Olsen (born January 22, 1987) is an American folk and indie rock singer and guitarist who was raised in St. Louis, Missouri[1][2] and currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.[3] She has recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang.[4]

After releasing her first EP, Strange Cacti,[5] and a debut album, Half Way Home,[6] on Bathetic Records, Olsen signed with Jagjaguwar[7] ahead of her first full-band record, Burn Your Fire For No Witness,[8] which was released on 17 February 2014.[9][10]

In addition to her work with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and The Cairo Gang, Olsen has collaborated with a number of other notable figures of American indie rock, including Tim Kinsella of Cap'n Jazz and LeRoy Bach of Wilco.[11] Her collaboration with Kinsella and Bach, as well as with Chicago poet Marvin Tate, resulted in the album "Tim Kinsella sings the songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen," which the group released on Indianapolis label Joyful Noise Recordings on December 3, 2013.[11]

Early life

At age three, Olsen was adopted by a foster family that had cared for her since shortly after her birth. The difference in years between her and her parents (now 71 and 83, respectively) left an impression. “Because there are so many decades of difference between us, I became more interested in what their childhood was like,” she says of her parents, both of whom still live in St. Louis. “I fantasized about what it was like to be young in the ’30s and ’50s, more so than other kids my age.”

In an interview with Spin the writer wrote that for Olsen these fantasies "would eventually include a diet of Everly Brothers harmonies and the songs of Skeeter Davis, her mother’s favorites from when she was in her 20s herself. Olsen began singing early, often in the middle of the night when she couldn’t sleep, the sound of her voice waking her parents in the other room. The house was filled with other foster children, she says, with new kids arriving all the time, if only temporarily. She was the last child her parents would adopt. “My mother just has this capacity for children,” she explains. “I think that’s what she always wanted: to be a mother. Me, on the other hand: I don’t know. It’s only recently that I’ve wanted to take care of something, to have a dog, to have a child with someone. In high school, I was never the one who said, ‘I’m going to get a babysitting job.’ I wanted to work in a cool café, not change diapers."”[12]

Discography

As leader

  • Summer Bummer Get Laid Get Wasted (Compilation Cassette, only one song included entitled "Your Train, My Home"), October 2009, Bathetic Records.
  • Strange Cacti (Debut Cassette), July 2010, Bathetic Records.
  • Lady Of The Waterpark (Covers Cassette), September 2010, Love Lion Records.
  • Electric Temple's Ceremony for Japan (Compilation Cassette, only one song included, a Townes Van Zandt cover called "She Came and She Touched Me"), April 2011, Electric Temple Records.
  • Strange Cacti (LP edition) April 2011, Bathetic Records.
  • Half Way Home (LP edition) Sept 2012, Bathetic Records.
  • Sleepwalker (7", "Sweet Dreams"/"California") January 2013, Sixteen Tambourines.
  • Burn Your Fire for No Witness (CD/LP/Cassette) February 2014, Jagjaguwar (for cd/lp) and Bathetic (limited cassette pressing)

With Bonnie Prince Billy

  • Island Brothers (Vinyl 10"), February 2011, Drag City Records.
  • "Wolfroy Goes to Town" (CD/LP), October 2011, Drag City Records.
  • "Now Here's My Plan" (CD/LP), July 2012, Drag City Records.

Other contributions

  • Tim Kinsella sings the songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (LP) December 2013, Joyful Noise Recordings.[13]

References

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