Angel Olsen is the indie heroine we desperately need
ANGEL Olsen is the indie heroine we desperately need. The Missouri musician harks back to the great alternative rock bands of the 1980s and ’90s, with songs that blend vulnerability and a bruised outsider perspective. To these classic underground values, she adds a quintessential Millennial determination not to be put in a box — or to let other people define her.
In person, this rising star is a surprise. As a songwriter Olsen seems classically angst-ridden. However, speaking to the Irish Examiner, she is reflexively witty, her conversational laced with wry chuckles and self-deprecating inflections. I tell her I was expecting someone… glummer.
