Mini-album om de heerlijke aandacht vast te houden van haar succesvolle full length album ‘Big Time’. Vier nummers die om een of andere reden over zijn gebleven van de BT sessie. Geen mager uitgevallen outtakes, maar gek genoeg kamerbreed geproduceerde, zelfverzekerde tracks die zich heel goed lenen voor de soulvolle indie stem-met-een-snik van Olsen… she sings, comfortable with the costs of her clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.
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Last year’s Big Time brought Angel Olsen to a deeper, truer sense of
self than ever before. Borne from the twin stars of grief and love, the
album delivered beautiful sense of certainty, the sure-footed sound of
an artist fully, finally at home with herself. But within that wisdom
comes the realization that there is no finish line, no destination or
static end point to life while you’re living it, and Forever Means
collects songs from the Big Time sessions that hold this common theme.
They are, in Olsen’s words, “in search of something else.” “I was
somewhere traveling,” says Olsen, “stopped for a few days and wandering
the city, and I was thinking ‘what does ‘forever’ really mean? What are
the things I’m seeking in friendship or love, and how can ‘forever’ be
attainable if we’re always changing?’” Sitting with the reality of that
entropy, Olsen realized “maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace
change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do
with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself,
never letting yourself think you’re finished learning or exploring.”
‘Forever’”, says Olsen, “remains curious while trying also to be kind
and honest.”
All this packs into the four precious songs that comprise Forever Means,
songs from Olsen’s roads traveled and the ones ahead. “Nothing’s free /
like breaking free” Olsen sings, comfortable with the costs of her
clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the
not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.