Hi-Five + Stars: Angel Olsen

Hi-Five + Stars;


Angel Olsen is a new favourite of mine, which is probably pretty obvious due to Burn Your Fire For No Witness being selected as my choice album for this month and I've lined up a track from Burn Your Fire as an FLF for you guys for this week. 
Olsen's voice is enchanting and haunting all at once, singing melancholic lines like "if all the trouble in my heart would only mend / I lost my dream I lost my reason all again". Even though most of the album has this overarching melancholic theme to the tracks, Hi-Five has to be one of the most up-beat and somehow cheerful songs written about being alone, "are you lonely too? Hi-five! So am I!" Her songs are raw, anarchic and full of power, this power is found in her voice and the old-timey sophistication that sounds within it. 
"I wish I had the voice of everything /...I'll close my eyes so tightly for the world", Olsen sings in Stars lamenting for deeper connections and hi-five's from anyone who's feeling the loneliness that she's laid out throughout her songs - the loneliness that she seems unafraid of, that pushes the listener to be unafraid too. "To sing the animals to sing the earth / to sing the stars into the universe / to sing it all back into something new / to sing for life or myself and leaving you", she sings to come closer to the loneliness that she feels. Her songs draw you in and take all of your concentration away from everything that is happening around you, you miss most of the stops on your train journey that you usually can't miss, all of the roads that you pay such attention to when you're going for a run or walking home. Her music is enchanting, and as much as she may at first seem rather melancholy it becomes so much more than just listening to someone sing about loneliness and more about taking in the realisation, and although you might already know this, that you aren't the only one. 
Olsen's album Burn Your Fire With No Words is a beautiful album that you should take your time to listen to. Just for now, or if you want to listen to them while you read, here is Hi-Five and Stars for you to experience:



Charlotte

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