Big Time: Vinyl 2LP Released This Month - May Mackintosh relied on the approach

Mackintosh relied on the approach of starting with a piano line

her ‘eighth album’

pedal steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis

the band initially had no plans to make a full length

the stage was well and truly set for a new album and it would be one that simply exploded globally and would go on to sell in excess of 31 million copies worldwide

Big Time: Vinyl 2LP Released This Month - May Mackintosh relied on the approachFresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsens Big Time were forged in such a whiplash.