Angel Olsen tells us how she stripped back her sound to the starkest essentials for her new album, 'Whole New Mess'
First, though, she wanted to capture the songs with as little adornment as possible — just her guitar and voice and an occasional keyboard, straight to two-inch tape. “The mood of the day was sad, spooky weirdness,” says Harris, who remembers capturing many of Olsen’s vocal takes in an empty stairwell. The singer-songwriter says she was looking for “the most ghostly version of these songs,” in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen’sor Arthur Russell’s homemade pop.
A decade ago, Olsen was working at a coffee shop in Chicago, where she’d moved in her early twenties after growing up in St. Louis. The customers were cranky, and her paychecks often bounced, but she loved the freedom the job gave her; she remembers writing songs on the backs of receipts during the day and performing them at tiny clubs by night.
As her career began to catch fire, putting together a backing band of her own for a rougher-edged sound seemed like a natural next step. “I wanted to play music with the big boys,” she says. “I got overzealous about the idea of playing in a rock & roll band because of the aggression I was feeling. I wanted to prove people wrong, and prove myself wrong.”, dipping into film-noir atmosphere and hints of R&B.
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