Angel Olsen Chases the Meaning of Ongoing Love on New Single “Forever Means”

The single serves as the title track from a new EP coming out this Friday on Jagjaguwar.

Angel Olsen Chases the Meaning of Ongoing Love on New Single “Forever Means”

The single serves as the title track from a new EP coming out this Friday on Jagjaguwar.

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photo: Luke Rogers

April 11, 2023

Today, Angel Olsen returns with new music following last year's Big Time. The latest single "Forever Means" is the title track from a new EP coming out this Friday, April 14, via Jagjaguwar. The single was written in 2019 after she penned All Mirrors and Whole New Mess, and she returned to the song throughout the Big Time sessions. “I’d thought of it as a kind of nod to George Harrison, who I’d been getting back into during the pandemic as I was finally calming down and finding moments of peace with myself,” Olsen shared about the single. 

She added: “I was somewhere traveling, stopped for a few days and wandering the city, and I was thinking, ‘What does “forever” really mean? What are the things I’m seeking in friendship or love, and how can ‘forever’ be attainable if we’re always changing?’... Maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself, never letting yourself think you’re finished learning or exploring.”

Listen to "Forever Means" below, and pre-order the EP of the same name here.