Burn Your Fire For No Witness
by Angel Olsen
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Angel Olsen bestography
Burn Your Fire For No Witness is ranked 3rd best out of 11 albums by Angel Olsen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Angel Olsen is My Woman which is ranked number 680 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,520.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Goûte mes disques Top 15 Pop/Rock 2014 | 13/15 | - |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 86 Music Albums of 2014 | 23/86 | 4 |
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 75 Music Albums of 2014 | 25/75 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 301-400 | 74/100 | - |
| 2026 | tyleraepps | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 42 Music Albums of 2014 | 19/42 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 48 Music Albums of 2014 | 3/48 | 5 |
| 2026 | javicho07 | Top 13 Music Albums of 2014 | 5/13 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 57/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 264 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 995 | |||
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 30 hours ago | ASOARE | 2,540 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/15/2026 01:44 |  imimesis | 2,119 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2026 21:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,700 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5383): By RockyRaccoon
imacgill 05/13/2026 23:31 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Burn Your Fire For No Witness comments
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It's got a nice vibe to it and Angel has a great, emotive voice. I liked the album but I don't think I could give it any more praise than that, as it is just not resonating with me the way it seems to for others. The longer the tracks go on the more my mind begins to wander, no matter how much I may enjoy them at the beginning.
Save for the title, the first track on "Burn Your Fire For No Witness" seems to suggest that Olsen is finding a balance between the lo-fi stylings of her debut EP "Strange Cacti" and the more clean sounding production of "Half Way Home". This of course leaves the listener totally unprepared for noisy, drum-heavy, drowned out vocals of "Forgiven/Forgotten", which sounds almost entirely unlike anything Olsen has recorded previously (much like... well, the entire album). "Burn Your Fire" is undoubtedly more stylistically varied that either Strange Cacti or Half Way Home; and while it does exhibit songs that would feel at home on either album, "Burn Your Fire" is a multi-directional departure from her usual sparse and focused acoustics; this isn't to say that Burn Your Fire lacks focus, but rather that it exhibits a stylistic versatility at which Olsen has hinted in the past, but which far exceeds any expectations we have held in regards to the extent of that versatility. There are still threads (particularly in the latter half of the album) that hold the album together such that it still feels like an Angel Olsen album (mainly for her very personal, expressive lyricism and unique vocal delivery, such as we have seen before), but as a whole, represents an Angel Olsen who is rapidly evolving as a songwriter and a musician in several directions at once, and who is succeeding massively at virtually every front
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/17/2017 23:04 | #198157 | TOP COMMENT
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This was easily one of my favourite albums for 2014 and introduced me to Angel Olsen , a sad melencoly runs through its entirity . It's far from perfect but a beautiful piece of work none the less
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/22/2020 06:54 | #247065 | TOP COMMENT
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'If you've still got some light in you then go before it's gone
Burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done
Fierce and light and young
Fierce and light and young
Hit the ground and run
Hit the ground and run'
(Track 4 "White Fire")
5 years post release I'm still obsessed with this album , it gets me every time
Tend to agree with OFarrio comments, certainly not blown away...maybe its a grower.
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