ANGEL OLSEN All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar/Inertia) CODA CHROMA Inside The Still Life (Echo Foxtrot) At a time when most of us probably spend most of our listening time through headphones, or at least earplugs, rather than speakers in a room or car, it may be odd to talk about particular albums being headphone records. If nothing else, the idea that you’ll hear better/feel closer with your cans on is negated somewhat by the compromises of compressed streaming sounds, even before we

ANGEL OLSEN Phases (Secretly/Inertia) By the time we hit Bruce Springsteen’s Tougher Than The Rest - two thirds of the way through this album of b-sides and oddities – there is no surprise to hear that this sad eyed love song of the lowlands has been made skeletal and even more potent. Angel Olsen’s approach on almost all these songs is to strip, pare, expose and then rebuild in ways that leave no room for anything but subtext. Unlike the relatively smooth sound of last year’