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Angel Olsen: Concorde 2, Brighton

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 October 2016

ANGEL OLSEN'S BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM, 2014's Burn Your Fire for No Witness, brought the St Louis-born songwriter into contact with those she calls "weirdos" — people who have been viscerally affected by her raw Americana-cum-grunge love songs. "How do I wrap my mind around connecting with people who are that lost?" she asked in a recent Guardian interview, while promoting her new record, My Woman.

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