Over in the UK, there’s a government encouraging those in the arts to retrain in cyber security.
Meanwhile, Angel Olsen is like the rest continuing through lockdown in the manner that all those in charge should be supporting – by keeping the creative juices flowing.
Time Bandits was written after she, ‘came home from St. Louis a few weeks ago’, and now, ‘against better judgement she’s decided to put new songs up’. “It’s a business but it’s my business,” Olsen concludes, in timely fashion.
The 11-minute trek quickly follows the release of Whole New Mess last month – an album that was part new, part reworking of last year’s All Mirrors LP. “Maybe a church is the best and worst place to write songs: if you’re saying a prayer they’re rarely heard, but if you’re making a confession then there’s just a chance you’ll pay down something that helps you find peace,” our review reads.
“Angel Olsen recorded Whole New Mess in a converted church in the small town of Anacortes, Washington, with only engineer Michael Harris for company. Conceived as the heartbroken cousin to the theatrical, string laden All Mirrors which followed, in the process Olsen was both making demo material and mapping the wreckage of a relationship.”