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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Angel Olsen features five tracks performed by five different singer-songwriters and another five tracks of Olsen covering different songs by the singer-songwriters featured earlier.
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- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk, Synth Pop
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Jan 10, 2025There’s a great lightness to each of Olsen’s covers, an attempt to abandon the feet she has planted on the ground. But the songs are rendered so fluffily that it’s hard to hear any of their structural elements; instead, the collection sounds more like a series of beautiful ooh-ing.
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Jan 10, 2025You can hear parallels between the whirrs of his work and Olsen’s own cavernous resonances.
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Record CollectorJan 10, 2025A hit/miss curio of a record. [Jan 2025, p.104]
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Jan 10, 2025Although inessential in the context of Olsen's output, Cosmic Waves is a great idea well-executed, with the covers lending a needed gravitas and collectability to what would otherwise be a playlist project.