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Burn Your Fire for No Witness

The second album, written in Chicago's Logan Square and made with a band.
Angel Olsen, 2014

Bandcamp lists February 18, 2014, a day later than Wikipedia, and says the songs were written while she lived in Logan Square in Chicago, many staying close to their original versions. Olsen wrote every song and told Mixdown that as far as writing and recording, she writes everything. Singles were "Forgiven/Forgotten", "Hi-Five" and "Windows"; a deluxe edition on November 18, 2014 runs 60:17 with five extra tracks. Metacritic scores it 84; Pitchfork gave 8.3, NME 9 of 10, the Guardian 4 of 5 and Spin 7 of 10, and the A.V. Club named it the best album of 2014.

Track listing

  1. Unfucktheworld2:05
  2. Forgiven/Forgotten2:03
  3. Hi-Five2:57
  4. White Fire6:55
  5. High & Wild3:53
  6. Lights Out4:27
  7. Stars4:38
  8. Iota3:27
  9. Dance Slow Decades4:05
  10. Enemy5:43
  11. Windows4:07

More from Angel Olsen

Half Way Home (2012), My Woman (2016), All Mirrors (2019), Whole New Mess (2020), Big Time (2022)

Sources

  1. Burn Your Fire for No Witness, Wikipedia
  2. Angel Olsen interview, Mixdown