Burn Your Fire for No Witness

Burn Your Fire for No Witness is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Angel Olsen. It was released in February 2014 under Jagjaguwar Records. "Forgiven/Forgotten", "Hi-Five" and "Windows" were released as singles. A deluxe edition was released on November 18, 2014, with five additional tracks.

Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Studio album by Angel Olsen
Released	February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17)
Genre	Indie rock indie folk alternative country
Length	44:20 60:17 (deluxe edition)
Label	Jagjaguwar
Producer	John Congleton
Angel Olsen chronology
Half Way Home (2012) Burn Your Fire for No Witness (2014) My Woman (2016)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.2/10[1]
Metacritic	84/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The A.V. Club	B+[4]
The Daily Telegraph	[5]
The Guardian	[6]
Mojo	[7]
NME	9/10[8]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[9]
Q	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Spin	7/10[12]

Burn Your Fire for No Witness garnered broadly positive reviews from critics. Turntable Kitchen called it "spellbinding and beautifully composed," while further describing it as "an album spilling over with heart-swelling and painfully visceral romance."^[13] The A.V. Club named it the best album of 2014. The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop annual critics' poll named Burn Your Fire for No Witness the eighth-best album of 2014.

In December 2019, Pitchfork listed Burn Your Fire for No Witness as the 26th best album of the decade.^[14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Angel Olsen, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Unfucktheworld"	2:05
2.	"Forgiven/Forgotten"	2:03
3.	"Hi-Five"	2:57
4.	"White Fire"	6:55
5.	"High & Wild"	3:53
6.	"Lights Out"	4:27
7.	"Stars"	4:38
8.	"Iota"	3:27
9.	"Dance Slow Decades"	4:05
10.	"Enemy"	5:43
11.	"Windows"	4:07

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
12.	"White Water"	5:40
13.	"All Right Now"	2:59
14.	"Only with You"	2:35
15.	"May as Well"	2:39
16.	"Endless Road" (Hoyt Axton)	2:04

Charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15]	81
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[16]	55
French Albums (SNEP)[17]	146
UK Albums (OCC)[18]	64
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[19]	13
US Billboard 200[20]	71
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[21]	16
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[22]	12
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[23]	19