So far this week, I have given you music from the 80's and called it guilt-free. Well, guilty is in the eye of the beholder.
So I had to bring you back to today. Well, really, last year. 2014.
Angel Olsen's album Burn Your Fire For No Witness was, inarguably, one of the best of 2014 (on my list, it tied for #1). It is criminal how ignored by radio - country, rock, whatever - this album was. It was certainly in my heavy rotation all year long, and it will remain there for years to come.
The entire album reminds me a lot of another classic album - Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. Both are angry and brilliant and occasionally profane. Both are lo-fi masterpieces. Both vacillate between electric fuzz and acoustic melancholy.
This was Angel Olsen's first full-band album (and only her 2nd overall). Who knows what brilliance is to come?
As an added bonus, here is Olsen, performing the song live in 2013, before her album was completed. It's a little sparser, but it is amazing, still.
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