Olsen, Angel

Angel Olsen Finds a New Gear in a Vintage Genre on ‘Big Time’

Angel Olsen does not care for empty pleasantries, in conversation or her music. “I don’t like small talk,” the 35-year-old St. Louis-born singer and songwriter said in a recent New Yorker profile, while driving around Asheville, N.C., the town she has called home for nearly a decade. Similarly, the songs on her superb sixth album, […]

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Harry Styles Tries On Synth-Pop, and 13 More New Songs

In “As It Was,” Harry Styles latches on to the kind of peppy electro-pop that the Weeknd updated from groups like a-ha. The song is from Styles’s third album, “Harry’s House,” due May 20, and its insistently upbeat production stokes the ambiguity of the lyrics. When he sings, “In this world, it’s just us/You know […]

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