Angel Olsen. La performance via Instagram della nuova canzone inedita “Time Bandits”

Angel Olsen ha condiviso via Instagram un video casalingo in cui esegue un nuovo brano inedito di 11 minuti, intitolato Time Bandits. Come dichiarato nel post, la canzone è stata scritta solo qualche settimana fa, mentre la cantante si trovava nella sua città natale, St. Louis.

Contro ogni buon senso ho deciso di diffondere nuove canzoni… …it’s a business but it’s my business.
Angel Olsen

La performance per solo pianoforte e voce, vede la Olsen alle prese con un lirismo potente e sognante, che in alcuni frangenti rimanda all’intensità di una Kate Bush minimalista. Di seguito lo streaming.

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I wrote this after I came home from St. Louis a few weeks ago…against better judgement I’ve decided to put new songs up, it’s a business but it’s my business. The feeling takes over at first it’s surprising But then I surrender no longer in hiding I’m having a hard time not falling in love with The heart of a moment the heart of a moment Be here if you’re bein’ the people are seeing Listen if you’re hearing The truth needs no saying It’s in us its with us if you know it, it’s framing The love that you’re holding the dreams that you carry The joke that you’re telling someone to be merry And laugh at it all when you’ve just had enough And dance when you’re crying, get that spirit up I want you I want you I need you right now To be here and lay down and get on the ground And hear it and feel it and know that you’re bound to the earth to each other, and that’s where it’s found The love that we wanted the future we need We can’t do it alone, we have to believe In each other in each other be as thick as thieves But thieves like time bandits with hearts on our sleeves Who fly up from the past and present what is key To surviving the future and reversing the spell That we put on our people that dragged us all into hell I want you I want you I need you right now I want you I want you I need you right now To be here and lay down and get on the ground And hear it and feel it and know that you’re bound to the earth to each other, and that’s where it’s found I want you I need you I need you right now

A post shared by Angel Olsen (@angelolsenmusic) on Oct 11, 2020 at 11:23am PDT

Recentemente la Olsen è stata protagonista di una toccante puntata per la serie Tiny Desk Home Concert. Durante il lockdown, inoltre, si è cimentata nell’esecuzione di alcune cover di classici, tra cui quella dello standard Mr. Lonely di Bobby Vinton, parte della colonna sonora del film KAJILLIONAIRE di Miranda July, come anche la versione di Il cielo in una stanza, di Gino Paoli, e non solo.

Sulle nostre pagine potete recuperare la recensione dell’ultimo album della cantante di St. Lous, Whole New Mess, raccolta di versioni più intime di alcune canzoni già apparse nell’ultima prova sulla lunga distanza All Mirrors, nonché un approfondimento sulla sua carriera, entrambi firmati da Fernando Rennis.