Big Time (Vinyl) NoLongerAvailable Shizuku can't help but notice

Shizuku can't help but notice that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on every one of the books she borrows from the library

and all manner of experimental flourishes with a sense of wit and fun

Magnetically-shielded

finding the band foregrounding the pop sensibilities that had always been present in their previous releases

In the 1998 reunion film

Big Time (Vinyl) NoLongerAvailable Shizuku can't help but noticeFresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsens Big Time were forged in such a whiplash.