I'd like to once again profess my love for Angel Olsen's "new" album (Feb. 2014). The latest song I'm falling all over my self for is "Stars". I was going to simply attach an album version of the song, but YouTube offered up this gold:
One of the things that I like about this track is Olsen's stream of consciousness/fearless lyrics.
I wish I had the voice of everything.
I wish I had the voice of everything.
To scream the animals, to scream the earth.
To screams the stars out of our universe.
Olsen's guttural, twangy, searching vocals climb and fall and make you believe her unbelievable words. These words are expressions of things that we can't usually express- they sound like colours a painter would use, unleashed when nothing else seems to make sense or satisfy. And this video is great because Olsen delivers all this pain and frustration and exhilaration with a stoic stare. Just look at her eyes.
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