Big Time: Vinyl 2LP Demob Hapyy it’s a rock inflected

it’s a rock inflected

as if they’re riding in the back of Bear’s Filipino jeepney that adorns the album’s cover

Thinking about how Aaron Dessner took a chance on me after I messaged him with a fury of demos

cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience

where haunting background vocals by guitarist Lena Fjortoft and the propulsive drums of Ryan Jewell help to craft an anthem you haven't heard until you have heard it with the volume up and the wind in your hair

Big Time: Vinyl 2LP Demob Hapyy it’s a rock inflectedFresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsens Big Time were forged in such a whiplash.