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Angel Olsen【 10 albums 59 lyrics 】
Angel Olsen (born January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from St. Louis, Missouri who currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She has recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang, before embarking on her own career.


Career

At age three, Olsen was adopted by a foster family that had cared for her since shortly after her birth. The difference in years between her and her parents left an impression. 'Because there are so many decades of difference between us, I became more interested in what their childhood was like,' she says of her parents, both of whom still live in St. Louis. 'I fantasized about what it was like to be young in the ’30s and ’50s, more so than other kids my age.' Olsen explained that 'my mother just has this capacity for children.' Despite early adolescent aspirations to be a 'pop star', her interests later shifted in high school. Olsen became more introverted, regularly attending punk rock and noise music shows at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center as well as Christian rock shows throughout the city. She began learning the piano and guitar and writing her own music. Two years after graduating from Tower Grove Christian High School, Olsen moved to Chicago.

After releasing her first EP, Strange Cacti, and a debut album, Half Way Home, on Bathetic Records, Olsen signed with Jagjaguwar, ahead of her first full-band record, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which was released on 17 February 2014. Olsen's third full-length album, My Woman, was released on September 2, 2016.

In addition to her work with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and The Cairo Gang, Olsen has collaborated with a number of other notable figures of American indie rock, including Tim Kinsella of Cap'n Jazz, LeRoy Bach of Wilco and Cass Mccombs. Her collaboration with Kinsella and Bach, as well as with Chicago poet Marvin Tate, resulted in the album 'Tim Kinsella sings the songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen,' which the group released on Indianapolis label Joyful Noise Recordings on December 3, 2013.

Her song 'Windows' was featured in the final episode of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why.


Discography
Solo

Studio LPs

Half Way Home (LP edition) Sept 2012, Bathetic Records.
Burn Your Fire for No Witness (CD/LP/Cassette) February 2014, Jagjaguwar (for cd/lp) and Bathetic (limited cassette pressing)
My Woman September 2016, Jagjaguwar. (UK #40)

Studio EP

Strange Cacti (LP edition) April 2011, Bathetic Records.

Cassettes

Strange Cacti (Debut Cassette), July 2010, Bathetic Records.
Lady Of The Waterpark (Covers Cassette), September 2010, Love Lion Records.

Singles

Sleepwalker (7', 'Sweet Dreams'/'California') January 2013, Sixteen Tambourines.
Intern (Single) June 2016, Jagjaguwar.

Compilations

Phases (2017)
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Album name Release Date  Song    
Who's Sorry Now 2017-03
1.Who's Sorry Now
Fly on Your Wall 2017
1.Fly on Your Wall
Sister 2016-08
1.Sister
My Woman 2016
1.Intern
2.Shut Up Kiss Me
3.Never Be Mine
4.Give It Up
5.Not Gonna Kill You
6.Heart Shaped Face
7.Sister
8.Those Were the Days
9.Woman
10.Pops
Burn Your Fire for No Witness 2014
1.Dance Slow Decades
2.Enemy
3.Windows
4.Lights Out
5.Stars
6.Iota
7.Hi-Five
8.White Fire
9.High & Wild
10.Unfucktheworld
11.Forgiven/Forgotten
Sleepwalker 2012
1.Sweet Dreams2.California
Half Way Home 2012
1.Acrobat
2.The Waiting
3.Safe in the Womb
4.Lonely Universe
5.Can't Wait Until Tomorrow
6.Always Half Strange
7.You Are Song
8.Miranda
9.The Sky Opened Up
10.Free
11.Tiniest Seed
Strange Cacti 2011
1.Tiniest Lights
2.If it's Alive, it Will
3.So That We Can Be Still
4.Drunk and with Dreams
5.Some things Cosmic
6.Creator, Destroyer
Phases
1.Sweet Dreams
2.California
3.Only With You
4.All Right Now
5.May as Well
6.Sans
7.Fly On Your Wall
8.Special
9.Endless Road
Miscellaneous
1.Attics of My Life
2.May as Well - Bonus Track
3.White Water (Bonus Track)
4.All Right Now (Bonus Track)
5.Only With You (Bonus Track)
6.Endless Road (Bonus Track)
7.Cry Baby

Correction of errors in the album information