All Mirrors
The breathtaking songs of Angel Olsen’s fifth album are fleshed out by a 12-piece string section and deliver grand gestures about romance, authenticity, and being simply at the mercy of how we feel.
All Mirrors is a big leap for Olsen beyond rough-hewn indie rock and haunting folk, a stark and attention-grabbing collection where dramatic string accents shroud monochrome post-punk synths and sparse rhythms.
Angel Olsen’s love songs always come with the suggestion that eternal love is impossible. On her fourth album she looks to herself for solace
In gaining resolve and forgoing turbulence instead of wading right back into it, Olsen has finally found contentment.
As the scything guitars, crashing drums and 14-piece orchestra coalesce on the bold opening track, Lark, it’s immediately clear that bigger often equals better on Angel Olsen’s lush fourth album, All Mirrors.
With orchestral strings and goth-noir drama, indie singer-songwriter Angel Olsen makes her biggest, boldest record yet with 'All Mirrors.'
The singer dials things up even further than 2016’s Sixties-leaning ‘My Woman’ on a balletic, haywire album that refuses to follow the rules
When Angel Olsen first emerged as a solo artist in the early 2010s, it was with a spare, haunting acoustic lo-fi that put all focus on her vulnerable, idiosyncratic vocal delivery.
Angel Olsen returns with a dramatic, devastating new record with some unpredictable flourishes
To say that Angel Olsen's latest is a great leap forward is no slight on her previous work. The Asheville, NC singer-songwriter established...
With the previous albums in her discography, Angel Olsen established herself as an angelic singer capable of effortlessly churning out soothing tunes.
"I just want to know that what I'm seeing is what I'm seeing and not what I'm looking for," Angel Olsen wrote on Twitter in July. On Olsen's rapturous fourth album, "All Mirrors," this cleansed vision is precisely what she gifts us.
Opening and closing with two six-minute theatrical epics, Angel Olsen’s fourth album ‘All Mirrors’ is cocooned in pensivity and
Fourth album from the St. Louis artist – the brooding romanticism of All Mirrors sees Angel Olsen reach new heights of emotive power.
The album is the sound of an artist carving out a space where she can be as loud—or as quiet—as she likes.
'All Mirrors' by Angel Olsen, album review by Adam Fink. The Jon Congleton produced full-length comes out on October 4th via Jagjaguwar
Literate, melodious songs twist into dissonance and darkness on Olsen’s new album. It’s a rewarding, unexpected listen
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors review: An undeniable stunner that should go down as one of the strongest art-pop albums of the year.