FOLK singer, lo-fi punk rocker, country balladeer – St Louis-raised songwriter Angel Olsen has fluttered between each of those categorisations in her first three albums. On LP No.4 My Woman, Olsen has shape-shifted again towards pop. Not the bland top-40 kind, but in the classic style of Roy Orbison, early Beatles, The Ronettes and Fleetwood Mac.
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Side A shows Olsen’s playful side on the upbeat Shut Up Kiss Me and ‘60s girl group-flavoured You’ll Never Be Mine, before the album comes insular, melancholy and reflective on the side B with the magnificent Sister and the brooding Heart Shaped Face. Throughout the 29-year-old’s versatile voice bewitches as it ranges from sweet seductress to tormented anger. Olsen is an absolutely stunning talent.
