''Big Time'' is the sixth

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by American singer-songwriter

Angel Olsen Angel Olsen (born Angelina Maria Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina. To date, Olsen has released six studio albums: ''Half Way Home'' (2012), ...

, and her first original release since ''

All Mirrors ''All Mirrors'' is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Angel Olsen, released on October 4, 2019 by Jagjaguwar. Produced by Angel Olsen and John Congleton, the album was preceded by two singles, the title track and "Lark". Both rel ...

'' (2019). The album was released on June 3, 2022 by

Jagjaguwar Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Jagjaguwar is a label included in Secretly Group, which also includes ...

. Produced by Olsen and Jonathan Wilson, the album was preceded by the singles "All the Good Times", "Big Time" and "Through the Fires". The record was accompanied by a 28-minute visual counterpart, directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch.

Critical reception

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 88 based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". John Amen of ''

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'' praised the album, writing, "With ''Big Time'', Olsen draws inspiration from some of popular music's most perennial templates, revamping them and, once again, reinventing herself."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the ''Big Time'' liner notes. Musicians *

– vocals (all tracks), guitar (1–8) *

Dan Higgins Dan Higgins (born January 28, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American saxophone and woodwind player. He has worked with such artists as John Williams, Seth MacFarlane, Aerosmith, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Maroon 5, Kenny Loggin ...

– horn arrangement (1),

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

, saxophone (1, 6, 8) * Emily Elhaj – bass (1–4, 6–9), guitar (1) * Jake Blanton – guitar (1–4, 6, 9), bells (1),

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

(4) * Jonathan Wilson – drums (1–4, 6–9), guitar (1, 2, 4, 6–8),

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

(1, 6), percussion (1–4, 6–10),

zither Zithers (; , from the Greek word ''cithara'') are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat bo ...

(3); bass,

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

(5);

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(6),

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

(8) * Drew Erickson – string & horn arrangements, conductor, piano (all tracks), organ (1–4, 6, 7, 9),

Wurlitzer The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...

(3),

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(4, 5, 7, 8), bass (6),

clavichord The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was mostly used as a practice instrument and as an aid to compositi ...

(7), synthesizer * Steve Holtman – trombone (1, 6, 8) *

Wayne Bergeron Wayne Bergeron (born January 16, 1958) is an American jazz trumpeter. Bergeron rose to prominence as a member of Maynard Ferguson's band in the 1980s. Since then, he has worked on over 400 TV and motion picture soundtracks. As a lead and studio ...

– trumpet (1, 6, 8) * Gus Seyffert – guitar (2) * Spencer Cullum – guitar (2, 3, 7) * Grant Milliken –

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

(4, 7, 9) * Jacob Braun – cello (5, 6, 8, 10) * Zach Dellinger – viola (5, 6, 8–10) * Andrew Bullbrook – violin (5, 6, 8–10) * Wynton Grant – violin (5, 6, 8–10) Technical * Angel Olsen –

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* Jonathan Wilson – production, mixing * Adam Ayan – mastering * Grant Milliken – studio personnel * Mirza Sherrif – studio personnel

Charts

References

External links

* 2022 albums Angel Olsen albums Jagjaguwar albums {{2020s-album-stub