1/03/2013

ANGEL OLSEN SHARES TWO NEW VIDEOS -- "TINIEST SEED" AND THE PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD "SWEET DREAMS" -- PREMIERED THIS MORNING VIA NPR MUSIC

ANGEL OLSEN SHARES TWO NEW VIDEOS -- "TINIEST SEED" AND THE PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD "SWEET DREAMS" -- PREMIERED THIS MORNING VIA NPR MUSIC

"SLEEPWALKER" 7" OUT JAN. 15 ON SIXTEEN TAMBOURINES; HALF WAY HOME LPS BACK IN STOCK

UPCOMING SHOWS: JAN. 4 IN LOS ANGELES, FEB. 7 IN ST. LOUIS, FEB. 8 IN CHICAGO



 
Let's all begin the new year with some new Angel Olsen, shall we? Today, she shares with the world two new films, premiered this morning via NPR Music. There's the "Tiniest Seed" video, which is a track off of her stunning sophomore album, Half Way Home, and the video for the previously unreleased song, "Sweet Dreams." A "transatlantic collaboration between four friends," filmmakers Randy Sterling Hunter, Ashley Connor, Zia Anger, and Ms. Olsen created these with the idea of the viewer watching them in tandem. "Two songs were written and recorded in Chicago and then sent to Vienna. There they were translated into a film score. The score was mailed back across the Atlantic and then interpreted using a hand-wound 16mm camera . . . The final version is the documentation of an epistolary-exchange lasting nearly a year . . . an attempt to sync the unsyncable and our experiment at reconciling the space between us." NPR Music tells the full story about these two films.

ANGEL OLSEN "TINIEST SEED" AND "SWEET DREAMS" VIDEOS ON NPR MUSIC:

ANGEL OLSEN "TINIEST SEED" VIDEO:

ANGEL OLSEN "SWEET DREAMS" VIDEO:

"Songs on [Half Way Home] had much in common with the passions and range of a singer like Roy Orbison. The common thread between that powerful singer-songwriter and hit-maker from Texas and this more delicate Midwesterner is that they both write from the heart and sing with a range that may make you stop what you're doing and drop your jaw a bit." - NPR Music
 
2012 culminated in exciting ways for Angel. She received accolades across the north east for her striking live show and her album, Half Way Home, made it's way onto a slew of year-end lists. After being out of stock for quite a while, Bathetic is thrilled to once again be shipping Half Way Home LPs near and far. Following that sold-out tour of select cities in November, Angel will play her first Los Angeles show tomorrow at Bootleg Bar. Her "Sleepwalker"" 7", featuring "Sweet Dreams" and "California," is out January 15th on Sixteen Tambourines.

ANGEL OLSEN TOUR DATES:
Fri. Jan. 4 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar
Thu. Feb. 7 - St. Louis @ Off Broadway w/ Water Liars
Fri. Feb. 8 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout w/ Water Liars
Sat. Feb. 9 - Carbondale, IL @ The Hangar 9 w/ Water Liars

"Sleepwalker" 7" pre-order:

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