Under the Radar

ANGEL OLSEN

alking to Angel Olsen, certain associations, many of them emotional, come up. There's the soul-wrenching, heart-ripping music, languid at times, intimate, or, to borrow an oft-used, perhaps overused word, “raw.” At other times, the music swells and crashes like a gathering wave. With these qualities in mind, and the way aspects of American culture frame and package female artists, the image of Olsen has often turned, through no fault of her own,

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