Angel Olsen is a folk singer from St. Louis, Missouri. She and her band are currently touring her second studio album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness. It’s been two years since her critically acclaimed debut, Half Way Home, and there has been a slight switch up in style.
Her debut was a collection of wispy acoustic numbers that very much harked back to the 1940’s. Her new record has switched from acoustic to electric, gathering a greater deal of momentum and propelling the singer up even higher than before.
Burn Your Fire For No Witness on record, is completely commanding. It is almost hypnotizing, as the pain and passion bleeds through the speakers. But live, at Bristol’s Colston Hall, well it was a particularly special show, the audience entranced and completely silent, in awe of this amazing artist.
This Bristol date was the last stop on her seven-stop UK tour. Angel, throughout her performance, had her fans in the palm of her hand, singing straight into the crowd with a devout, almost unblinking stare. It was utterly mesmerising.
Between tracks, she would crack jokes, simply to lighten the mood, and they were actually really quite funny. Closing with ‘Sweet Dreams’, Angel and her band thanked the crowd profusely, and as they left the stage there was a common consensus that everyone wanted just a little bit more of the remarkable Angel Olsen.
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