Adrian Spinelli May 6, 2021
Angel Olsen has released a three-album boxed set. Photo: NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images
The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music.
NEW ALBUMS
Angel Olsen, “Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories” (Jagjaguwar)
The Chicago indie folk powerhouse has become one of those prolific artists who merit attention every year with a new release. This time around, it’s a three-album box set of her two most recent LPs, a bonus LP of new material and re-works, plus a 40 page booklet of photos and handwritten lyrics.
Initially intended to be released as a pair, having 2019’s “All Mirrors” and 2020’s experimental “Whole New Mess” in the boxed set allows fans to hear completed versions of Olsen’s songs from the former and a look at the bones and process tracks on the latter. It’s like going to an art museum to see a famous work and being able to wander into a back room to see its charcoal sketch studies.