Angel Olsen has never been as timid some descriptors imply, and the noisy, fiery hints in her earlier work find a fuller expression on her forthcoming LP, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, due out February 18th on Jagjaguwar. Here, Olsen sings with full-throated exultation, admonition, and bold, expressive melody. Also, with the help of producer John Congleton, her music now crackles with a churning, rumbling low end and a brighter energy.

This “collection of songs, grown in a year of heartbreak, travel, and transformation,” tell us to leave, or to high-five a lover who is lacking, or to dance our way up and out of sorrow. Many remain essentially unchanged from their bare beginnings. In leaving them so intact, a more self-assured Olsen than the one present on debut EP, Strange Cacti, where she was just beginning to explore the remarkable range of her voice, and full-length, Half Way Home (Bathetic), where she dared to be more personal, is opening up, allowing us to be in the room with her at the very genesis of these songs, when the thread of creation is most vulnerable and least filtered. We are rewarded for entering this room with many head-turning moments and the powerful, unsettling recognition of ourselves in the weave of her songs.

This act of meaning-making recurs as a theme throughout Burn Your Fire for No Witness, as the sublimating response to the power of negativity, and thankfully for us, Olsen has decided to channel a lot of this newfound power into the ethereal, hypnotic performances of her new and revealing songs.

Angel and band will kick off another year of endless touring on the album’s release date. A full list of dates is below. Burn Your Fire for No Witness is available for pre-order today. An instant download of “Forgiven/Forgotten” comes with each iTunes pre-order. www.scdistribution.com/angelolsen

ANGEL OLSEN TOUR DATES:

Fri. Nov. 29 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits

Sat. Nov. 30 – Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub

Tue. Dec. 3 – Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder at FSU

Wed. Dec. 4 – New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar

Thu. Dec. 5 – Oxford, MS @ Lamar Lounge

Thu. Dec. 12 – London, UK @ The Forum w/ Neko Case

Tue. Feb. 18 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern

Thu. Feb. 20 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge

Sat. Feb. 22 – Nashville, TN @ The Stone Fox

Sun. Feb. 23 – Fayetteville, AR @ JR’s Lightbulb Club

Mon. Feb. 24 – Dallas, TX @ Three Links

Tue. Feb. 25 – Austin, TX @ Red 7

Sat. March 1 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

Sun. March 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex

Mon. March 3 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

Wed. March 5 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

Thu. March 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Media Club

Fri. March 7 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza

Sat. March 8 – Moscow, ID @ Mikey’s Gyros

Mon. March 10 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge

BURN YOUR FIRE FOR NO WITNESS TRACKLISTING:

01. Unf**ktheworld

02. Forgiven/Forgotten

03. Hi-Five

04.  White Fire

05. High & Wild

06. Lights Out

07. Stars

08. Iota

09. Dance Slow Decades

10. Enemy