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The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsenrsquos 2016 marvel, lsquoMy Womanrsquo, had been a career breakthrough but it catalysed a period of personal tumult, too a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolinarsquos Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape lsquoWhole New Messrsquo, Olsenrsquos first solo album since her 2012 debut and an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in realtime.At least nine of the eleven songs on lsquoWhole New Messrsquo should sound familiar to anyone who has heard lsquoAll Mirrorsrsquo, Olsenrsquos grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honours on prestigious yearend lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. lsquoLarkrsquo, lsquoSummerrsquo, lsquoChancersquo they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles.
