Announcing Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories. Out May 7. Pre-order It Now 

Originally conceived as a double album, All Mirrors and Whole New Mess were distinct parts of a larger whole, twin stars that each expressed something bigger and bolder than Angel Olsen had ever made. Released in 2019, All Mirrors is massive in scope and sound, tracing Olsen’s ascent into the unknown, to a place of true self-acceptance, no matter how dark, or difficult, or seemingly lonely. All Mirrors is colossal, moving, dramatic in an Old Hollywood manner. Recorded before All Mirrors but released after, Whole New Mess is the bones and beginnings of the songs that would rewrite Olsen’s story. This is Angel Olsen in her classic style: stark solo performances, echoes and open spaces, her voice both whispered and enormous.  All Mirrors and Whole New Mess presented the two glorious extremes of an artist who, in these songs, became new by embracing herself entirely.

Now, with Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories, these twin stars become a constellation with the full extent of the songs’ iterations: all the alternate takes, b-sides, remixes and reimaginings are here, together. Alongside, a 40-page book collection tells a similar story, not just through outtakes and unseen photos but through the smaller, evocative details: handwritten lyrics, a favorite necklace, a beaded chandelier. As if it could be more plainly stated (there’s nothing more), Angel adds one cover here: a loving, assertive rendition of Roxy Music’s “More Than This.”  

In first speaking about these songs, Olsen said, “It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past, and another part of it was waiting to exist.” What better way to articulate timelessness.  If Whole New Mess holds the truths of Olsen’s enduring self, and All Mirrors documents her ascent toward a new future, Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories exists out of time, capturing the whole artist beyond this one sound, or that one recording, or any one idea.  It is a definitive collection, not just of these songs but of their revelations and their writer, from their simplest origins to their mightiest realizations.

Out May 7. Limited to 3000 Physical Copies. 

Far Memory Bonus LP Tracklist:

  1. All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel Remix)
  2. New Love Cassette (Mark Ronson Remix)
  3. More Than This
  4. Smaller
  5. It’s Every Season (Whole New Mess)
  6. Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)

All Mirrors Tracklist:

  1. Lark
  2. All Mirrors
  3. Too Easy
  4. New Love Cassette
  5. Spring
  6. What It Is
  7. Impasse
  8. Tonight
  9. Summer
  10. Endgame
  11. Chance

Whole New Mess Tracklist

  1. Whole New Mess
  2. Too Easy (Bigger Than Us)
  3. (New Love) Cassette
  4. (We Are All Mirrors)
  5. (Summer Song)
  6. Waving, Smiling
  7. Tonight (Without You)
  8. Lark Song
  9. Impasse (Workin’ For The Name)
  10. Chance (Forever Love)
  11. What It Is (What It Is)

Angel Olsen

Cosmic Stream 3 – Aug 28 – On Sale Now

Excited to announce Cosmic Stream 3 – Join Angel for the Whole New Mess Record Release Show on August 28, streaming from the beautiful Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre in Asheville, NC. Shot by Ashley Connor. Tickets are on sale now and are good for 48 hours of viewing. Purchase them here. You can also purchase the new album bundle which comes with The LP, an exclusive 7″, and a ticket. A portion of the proceeds will go to The National Independent Venue Association and their work to preserve independent venues and promoters around the US.  For more info visit https://www.nivassoc.org/

Angel Olsen

New Album Whole New Mess Out Aug 28

Angel Olsen will release Whole New Mess, her first solo album since her 2012 debut, on August 28th via Jagjaguwar. You can pre order it HERE. A super intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, Whole New Mess presents Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. In conjunction with today’s announcement, Olsen presents the lead single, “Whole New Mess,” with a video directed by longtime collaborator Ashley Connor and a performance this evening on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Additionally, she announces Cosmic Stream 3, the third in her livestream series, which will air on the album’s release date and stream from the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Asheville, NC.

Whole New Mess follows All Mirrors. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to any of you who have heard All Mirrors. “Lark,” “Summer,” “Chance”—they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is its own record with its own immovable mood. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of All Mirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole New Mess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries.

The Whole New Mess bundle includes the LP on limited edition translucent pink glass vinyl, the exclusive Smaller 7″ which includes “Smaller” b/w “More Than This” o black vinyl, an instant download of “Whole New Mess” and a ticket to Cosmic Stream 3 – the record release show.

All Mirrors is out worldwide on October 4 on Jagjaguwar. Pre Orders from the Secretly Store come on exclusive opaque aquamarine vinyl. The Jagjaguawar limited and exclusive bundle includes the aquamarine vinyl and the All Mirrors 7″ on silver and black splatter vinyl. The 7″ includes two versions of the album’s title track: “All Mirrors” album version and “We Are All Mirrors” solo version.

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A European tour has been announced. All ticket links can be found in the Tour section. All dates are on sale Friday Aug 2 at 9am BST / 10am CEST

23.01.2020 Lisbon, PT – ZDB @ Capitólio
24.01.2020 Porto, PT – Hard Club
25.01.2020 Madrid, ES – Sala BUT
26.01.2020 Barcelona, ES – Sala Razzmatazz
28.01.2020 Geneva, CH – Festival Antigel
29.01.2020 Munich, DE – Kammerspiele
30.01.2020 Berlin, DE – Huxleys Neue Welt
31.01.2020 Copenhagen, DK – VEGA
01.02.2020 Oslo, NO – Rockefeller
03.02.2020 Stockholm, SE – Vasateatern
04.02.2020 Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik
05.02.2020 Hamburg, DE – Gruenspan
06.02.2020 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
07.02.2020 Antwerp, BE – De Roma
08.02.2020 Paris, FR – La Cigale
10.02.2020 Bristol, UK – SWX
11.02.2020 London, UK – Eventim Apollo
13.02.2020 Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
14.02.2020 Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom

Angel co wrote and is featured on Mark Ronson’s new track “True Blue” taken from his latest album Late Night Feelings. Listen to the track HERE

Angel Olsen will be bringing her new band out for a new live show across North America in the Fall. All dates are at the TOUR section and on sale now.

Oct 28 – Saxapaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
Oct. 30 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes *
Oct. 31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall *
Nov. 1 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre *
Nov. 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *
Nov. 5 – New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre *
Nov. 7 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation) *
Nov. 8 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater *
Nov. 9 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion *
Nov. 10 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada *
Nov. 12 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
Nov. 13 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *
Nov. 14 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre *
Nov. 15 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre *
Nov. 16 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
Nov. 18 – Montreal, QC @ mTelus *
Nov. 19 – Boston, MA @ Royale *
Nov. 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
Nov. 23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
Dec. 2 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren *
Dec. 3 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park *
Dec. 5 – Los Angeles, CA @ Palace Theater *
Dec. 6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Palace Theater#
Dec. 7 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater *
Dec. 9 – Portland, OR @ Roseland *
Dec. 10 – Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum Theatre *
Dec. 11 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre *
Dec. 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot *
Dec. 14 – Denver, CO @ The Gothic Theatre *
Dec. 15 – Denver, CO @ The Gothic Theatre *

* = w/ Vagabon
^ = w/ Madi Diaz
#= w/ Rodrigo Amarante