Angel Olsen - Aisles EP (somethingscosmic, August 20, 2021)

TJ Wells · Jul 8, 2021

Excited to announce Aisles - an EP of 80s covers, the first release on my imprint with Jagjaguwar called somethingscosmic. While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream at-home performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, a local engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I have known each other for years.

Summer 2020 was tough for many reasons. But Adam and his wife Emily opened their home to me and made it a safe space to create and let go. I told Adam I had an idea to record some covers and bring some of the band into the mix, or add other players. I wanted to record 80’s songs that I’d overheard walking the aisles at the grocery store, and I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general. I thought about completely changing some of the songs and turning them inside out.

Most of these covers were tracked in the winter of last year. I’d come over to find Adam had set up 5 or so synthesizers, and we’d get lost on a part for a while messing with some obscure pedal I knew nothing about. We’d spend a good amount of time going through sounds before finding one or two, sometimes we’d get real weird and decide to just go with it.

I know it’s not really in my history to do something unintentional or just for the hell of it but my connection to these songs is pretty straightforward, I just wanted to have a little fun and be a little more spontaneous, and I think I needed to remember that I could!

My cover of Laura Branigan's "Gloria" is out today. The EP is out digitally August 20. Physical LPs and tapes will be out September 24 on frosted blue vinyl and clear blue cassettes. Pre Order and stream here: Angel Olsen – 'Aisles'
Cover photo by Dana Trippe , design by Miles Johnson

Tracklist:
1. Gloria (Laura Branigan)
2. Eyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)
3. Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
4. If You Leave (OMD)
5. Forever Young (Alphaville)

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