Aaron MF Olson - Songs Album II

Format: LP 
Catalogue No.: CNT104
Barcode: 0781484310419
Release Date: 26 Jun 2026
Genre: Folk/Americana

 ‘Songs Album II’ is LA musician Aaron MF Olson’s Country Thyme Records debut, his second ‘songs for singing’ album in just over a decade of releasing music. Aaron’s a sweet fellow. He can be salty on occasion, but it’s put to good use here. His songs mix satiric,
confessional and experimental lyric modes and his music’s cut from a fine cloth of head-informed, classically sweet and soft pop / rock modes. Most of all, ‘Songs Album II’ is music for listening.
 To listen to and to play music; that’s been his highest aim, for most of his life. His high school band was a post-rock group that morphed into a surf music outfit; he’s been similarly guided by such polarities and congruities in the time since. He’s released four albums of ‘Baywatch Krautrock’ with LA Takedown and played and recorded in many other projects, including but not limited to his experimental Music Tracing Ensemble, exotica collective Other Delights, Bedouine, Coffin Prick, Papa M, Tommy Peltier, Vetiver and ‘L.A.’s Most grateful Dead cover band’, Richard Pictures.
 Aaron’s solo credits include 2020’s switched-on essay, ‘Ranchera ‘22 {Synthesizer Interpretations of the Songs of José Alfredo Jiménez}’ and the 2022 New Age release, ‘For Dorothy’. He does film / television composition too; most recently, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Matt Hewitt’s indie horror film, ‘Hoagie’.
 If all this implies a wide palette of input / output, ‘Songs Album II’ has it in reserve, framed scrupulously in a sequence of nice, light folk / rock ditties, their spacey-yet-precise arrangements colourfully blowing up the songs’ personal values. It’s Aaron, on most acoustic and electric guitars and basses, keyboards, harmonica, synth and vocals,
Robin MacMillian on drums, Tara Milch flute, Michael Sachs clarinets, Luke Csehak bassoon and trumpet, additional guitars and vocals from Blue Broderick, Bart Davenport and Wayne Faler, keyboards and vocals from Andrew Dorsett and vocals by Matt Popieluch, making ‘Songs Album II’ a collection of widescreen, hi-def songs and sounds.
 Aaron’s voice is light-toned, gentle and tunefully raspy, falling somewhere between Jack Nitzsche, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Wyatt and personal inspirations John Simon, Stephen Pastel, Jim O’Rourke and Kermit’s nephew, Robin. And Emmett Otter. Not a bad bunch to be sharing the water with.

Tracklisting
More Than a Life’s Work
Nobody Can Tell
There Comes a Time
The Small Planets
Who Do You Think You Are I Am?
Gilded Lawns of Summer
Jennifer (Here with Me)
We Welcome Our Travelers From the Wormworld
The Punisher
The Endless List of Anything