On her new album, Angel Olsen transfigures harrowing grief into songs of survival. “Something happens, and then you chisel your way through it, and then art is made,” she said. “But it doesn’t always feel artistic. It feels like survival mode.”
Olsen sometimes worries about the intensity of what she does, how her music might inadvertently magnify her suffering. But the process of transfiguration—denaturing her pain, turning it into song—can also be healing.
When Olsen finished “Big Time,” Jagjaguwar, her record label, asked her for a bio, and she wrote a ten-page essay explaining what had led her to make the album. The label gently suggested that she consider sharing something shorter and more focussed on the music. Eventually, the novelist Catherine Lacey used Olsen’s essay and an interview with her to write something new. “Sum it up, bitch!” Olsen joked.
Olsen told her mother about the relationship over the phone. “My mom was really childlike in a lot of ways,” Olsen said. “She would leave me these voice mails like ‘Hi! I like what you were wearing on that one TV show! Well, I know you’re busy . . .’ It breaks my heart because I was really busy, and I wish I’d had more energy to talk to her all the time. She’d be, like, ‘Are you seeing anyone? I don’t want you to be lonely.’ I was hiding myself from her, so I wouldn’t call her.
When Olsen was seventeen, she briefly encountered her birth mother. She remembers feeling disoriented when she was called Angie. Her parents, she said, “just weren’t ready to have a kid. People who really want to be loved by someone can stay in a manipulative, traumatic relationship longer than they should because that’s how they feel safe. I think she probably felt safe with him at the time. But I don’t really know much about her, or about how she lives her life.
Distillation is such an instinctive and central part of Olsen’s creative process that even her casual conversations tend to proceed with a kind of urgency. “I like driving aimlessly, and I like getting lost,” she told me. “But I don’t like small talk. That’s not the kind of lost I’m looking for.” I suggested that there might be no more potent motivation on earth than “I’ll show you,” directed at everyone and no one. “Exactly,” she replied. “That’s the energy that I had after I left that situation: You’ll fucking see. You just wait.”
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