“Angel’s making a lot of new fans right now,” said Jon Coombs, vice president of A&R at Secretly Group, which includes her label, Jagjaguwar.
Some of Olsen’s moves lately have suggested a growing interest in pop: She sang a few bars of Harry Styles’ “Boyfriends” on TikTok (which Styles appeared to have seen when Apple Music’s Zane Lowe mentioned it in an interview), and she made a short film based on “Big Time” with director Kimberly Stuckwisch, who previously oversaw Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour Prom” concert movie. “Big Time” has earned rave reviews in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork she performed the title track on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy posted an admiring cover of the title track on the day the album came out. The LP’s much-discussed excellence - not to mention widespread curiosity about the recent dramatic events in Olsen’s life - has established big breakthrough energy around the singer a decade after she got her start in the scrappy indie-folk underground. lang’s “Ingénue” and Shelby Lynne’s “I Am Shelby Lynne” - exquisitely rendered albums by women who broadened ideas about what stories roots music can tell and to whom its traditions belong. Yet “Big Time” also takes in the healing promise of fresh romance Olsen co-wrote the lightheaded title track with her partner of over a year, Beau Thibodeaux, who met the singer’s family for the first time at Olsen’s father’s funeral - and whom Olsen introduced in an Instagram post in April 2021 captioned, “My beau, I’m gay.” “We’re always busy, baby, not this time,” Olsen sings over rippling barrelhouse piano in “Big Time,” “Lay in the tall grass, talking with your eyes.” The result finds a place in a queer country-soul lineage that encompasses Dusty Springfield’s “Dusty in Memphis,” k.d.
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