On Friday, I included Angel Olsen’s new song “White Fire” in my list of favorite things from last week. Now I would like to take this opportunity to strongly encourage all of you to listen to her new album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, which is streaming on NPR. I think I can say that this album is my favorite of the year so far. I mean, there hasn’t been that much of “the year” yet, so it’s pretty easy for me to say something like this on February 10th. But…I think it’s very good. Just listen to it.

And if you like it, buy the album. It comes out on February 18th.

Here is the video for “Hi-Five”:

And also, her recent NPR Tiny Desk concert (the first one of these I’ve actually watched all the way through in a while?):