Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Pink Glass Translucent Vinyl) Dance Music is the first Animal Collective

is the first Animal Collective album since Centipede Hz (2012) that was recorded with all four members in the same room at the same time

their plan was to walk out with enough songs for a seven-inch single

from the opening back-and-forth build of “Desire” to the click-clacking chorus of “Haha

with Bower jointly producing

Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Pink Glass Translucent Vinyl) Dance Music is the first Animal CollectiveThe time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsens 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolinas Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly lovehow forever is too much to promise, how