![]() The metalcore veterans from Hamilton have re-emerged with their first track since their 2019 LP “Nothing Left to Love” and are immediately throwing punches with “Unwavering Vow.”Īnd it’s without question the first single from their upcoming album “A Eulogy for Those Who Are Still Here” is Counterparts at its finest. Ultimately, the track makes a simple point: only love can drive away the blues. “I can’t seem to get anything done/ With someone likе you around/ Everyone’s wondering whеre I’ve gone/ Having too much fun, having too much fun/ Doing nothing, doing nothing,” she sings over deeply sustained piano chords, her voice filled with pain and infatuation. At times the grief is palpable, but elsewhere -notably on the album’s stunning closing track “Chasing the Sun” – Olsen sounds irredeemably in love. “Big Time” is a heavy album – a New Yorker profile details how Olsen came out as gay to her adoptive parents, who both died just two months apart shortly after. Over the course of the last decade, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has undergone several transformations – just compare the angsty lo-fi folk of “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” to the punchy indie rock of “MY WOMAN” to the ambitious art pop of “All Mirrors.” On her sixth album, “Big Time,” Olsen assumes the role of the alt-country crooner, using her singular voice to explore dreamy sonic landscapes made up of slide guitar, sumptuous strings and downtempo percussion. ![]() ![]() It might not be new, but it should tide her ravenous fans over for a minute. It’s a classic SZA track – raw and vulnerable, but delivered with an icy swagger. “Still, it was worth it/ I would do it again,” she admits in the chorus. “And now we don’t speak at all/ Now I regret it all,” SZA laments over a trilling flute sample and a subtle trap beat. And wow, does it have legs – since it’s release, the album has never left the Billboard Top 200 chart.Įarlier this week, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of “Ctrl,” SZA released a deluxe version of the album, which features seven previously unreleased tracks that she recorded between 20 - including an alternative version of “ Love Galore,” a track produced by Tyler, The Creator and another that flips the chorus from PartyNextDoor and Drake’s “Come and See Me.”īut the standout here is “Awkward,” a melancholy ballad about a budding relationship cut short by the rush of intimacy. Sure, she’s released a slow drip of high quality singles and features in recent years, but her debut, 2017’s “Ctrl”, remains her supreme artistic statement. Considering her stature within the world of R&B and pop, it’s wild to think that SZA has only released a single album.
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