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Hear Two Songs From Angel Olsen's New Rarities Collection

By Stephen Thompson
Published September 21, 2017 at 10:24 AM EDT
Angel Olsen's new rarities collection, <em>Phases</em>, comes out Nov. 10.
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Angel Olsen's new rarities collection, Phases, comes out Nov. 10.

Angel Olsen performs with incredible intensity, whether she's performing in an acoustic whisper or cranking out searing rock 'n' roll at the head of a band. Her most recent album, last year's My Woman, tilted toward the big and brash, signaling greater volume to come. But on Nov. 10, she'll return with Phases, a new collection of B-sides, demos and previously unreleased songs that capture most every dimension she's revealed so far.

Today, Olsen releases the album's first two tracks: "Special," which she'd recorded during the making of My Woman, and "Fly on Your Wall," which came out earlier this year as part of Bandcamp's benefit project. "Special" is particularly, well, special — a churning, slow-building seven-minute jam about fear of a failure to meet expectations. She needn't have worried.

Phasescomes out Nov. 10 via Jagjaguwar. Track list below:

  • "Fly On Your Wall"

  • "Special"

  • "Only You"

  • "All Right Now"

  • "Sans"

  • "Sweet Dreams"

  • "California"

  • "Tougher Than The Rest"

  • "For You"

  • "How Many Dreams"

  • "May As Well"

  • "Endless Road"

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    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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