Hear Angel Olsen Break Down “Shut Up Kiss Me” On Song Exploder

Hear Angel Olsen Break Down “Shut Up Kiss Me” On Song Exploder

On the Song Exploder podcast, artists and songwriters dig deep into the process of a single particular song, walking us through the steps of how they put it together. The latest participant is Angel Olsen, who spends a 15-minute episode breaking down the giddy head-rush “Shut Up Kiss Me,” one of the best indie rock songs that 2016 has given us. Olsen says that she wrote the song from a place of, basically, romantic anger, and she recorded it live-in-studio with her band. To get it right, they practiced for hours and hours — for so long, in fact, that Olsen injured her arm playing guitar. There’s also a nod to David Bowie’s “Changes” in the piano part. During the podcast, we hear bits of a bare version of the song, as well as the isolated individual instruments that the band members played on the recording. It’s an in-depth look into a great song; check it out below.

Olsen’s fantastic album My Woman is out now on Jagjaguwar.

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