Angel Olsen – Metallica – It’s Friday!

A couple quick hits for today, Friday August 28, 2020. The latest Angel Olsen “Whole New Mess” has hit the shelves and we have the limited clear smoke translucent vinyl version in stock. Also, Metallica has dropped “S&M2” the live concert with the San Francisco Symphony. We have the limited edition 4xLP marbled orange vinyl version currently in stock.

Here are some more details on these awesome new releases.

Metallica And San Francisco Symphony – S&M2

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony, is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs (over 2.5 hours of music) from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favorites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. S&M2 is newly re-edited by the band with remixed and remastered audio for a whole new look and sound from the original theatrical run in October 2019.

Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess

The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen’s 2016 marvel, “My Woman”, had been a career breakthrough, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love – how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape “Whole New Mess”, an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in real-time. At least nine of the eleven songs on “Whole New Mess” should sound familiar to anyone who has heard “All Mirrors”, Olsen’s grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. They are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for “All Mirrors”. Instead, “Whole New Mess” is its own record with its own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest.

Have a super fantastic weekend and we will see you soon!