For all the critical acclaim, happiness for the US folk-rocker is a home of her own, a cat and a newfound calm
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A few years ago, following the release of her widely acclaimed 2016 album, My Woman, Angel Olsen started noticing celebrities turning up at her live shows.
Christina Hendricks, of Mad Men fame, came to a concert in
Los Angeles and swayed along to Olsen’s smouldering, deeply felt folk-rock. She stuck around to say hello afterwards, as did the actor Brie Larson, who proved herself to be, in Olsen’s assessment, “super down-to-earth and really normal and just chill”.