Acceptance without defeat is a tricky concept to get your head around. Like most of life’s most valuable truths, you can only live it, not think it. Maybe truth is more of an experience fading in & out and not something you can write down on a piece of paper and carry with you at all times. Angel Olsen managers to capture a fleeting moment of hard-won peace on ‘Waving, Smiling’, especially in this live version, recorded at the Masonic Temple.

Directed by Ashley Connor

Lyrics excerpt:

“I’ve made my bed, made up of all my fears/ all my fears cried out all of those years/ cried out all of those years/ Now baby I’m lying/ Laid out and smiling,” 

From ’Whole New Mess', out August 2020.