Angel Olsen / Jaye Bartell @ Mono, Glasgow, 9 Jun

Performing solo for the most part, yet blessed with the kind of oaken baritone that can enthral a crowd unaided, Jaye Bartell gently starts tonight’s ball rolling with a selection of rich, slow balladry – an offering that dovetails beautifully with the headliner’s own intimate style. A reverential cover of Unfucktheworld whets appetites for the main event, while Olsen herself lends backing vocals to a brace of mid-set songs on which the duo’s contrasting voices melt together sumptuously.

This evening’s sold-out show comes at the tail end of a four month tour that’s taken Angel Olsen around the US and Europe in support of stunning second album Burn Your Fire for No Witness. But if time on the road has fatigued the St Louis-born songwriter she keeps its impact hidden; from the first note onwards, her crystalline performance casts a definite enchantment, with versatile vocals commanding near silence throughout. As she flips between tender, hothouse fragility and a more formidable, tough-skinned croon, highlights quickly accumulate – from scuffed-up rallying cry Hi-Five to the blisteringly emotive Stars. Elsewhere, the desperado blues of Miranda (from 2012’s Half Way Home) and a shimmering Some Things Cosmic (from debut EP Strange Cacti) serve as potent reminders that Burn Your Fire… wasn’t Olsen’s first rodeo; a desolate White Fire, meanwhile, brings all the divine sadness to a suitably intense head. [Chris Buckle]