''Strange Cacti'' is the debut
EP by American singer-songwriter and musician
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), ...
. Originally released on
cassette
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Technology
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in 2010, it was later reissued by Bathetic Records in 2011. The record consists of six tracks of
Americana and
indie folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation.
The genre has its ...
,
featuring only voice and guitar.
Critical reception
AllMusic
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critic Marcy Donelson thought that "her
lsen's/nowiki> ability to write expressive melodies and to deliver raw lyrics with clumsy sincerity and unusual technique gives Olsen the potential to be downright fascinating to others."Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s songs". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performe ...
78 RPM, with Olsen's gloriously emotive voice serenading through a smoky haze as if from another world, at once enchanting and mysterious."
Track listing
# "Tiniest Lights"
# "If It's Alive, It Will"
# "So That We Can Be Still"
# "Drunk and With Dreams"
# "Some Things Cosmic"
# "Creator, Destroyer"
References
External links
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{{Angel Olsen
2010 debut EPs
Indie folk EPs
Angel Olsen albums