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Big Time

★★★★☆  album

Big Time

In a singular season, Olsen witnessed a public reckoning alongside private devastation, and from that crucible she fashioned an album at once warmly country-inflected and unflinchingly elegiac. Her voice possesses an extraordinary capacity to level architecture with gentleness intact.

what it left me with

Joy and bereavement arrive together far more often than convention permits us to acknowledge. The same season may hold both a nascent love and a fresh wound, and both deserve their full measure.

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