Angel Olsen, though, isn’t most artists. Before making her fourth album, 2019’s astounding ‘All Mirrors’, she escaped to a tiny studio in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest of America to work out a bunch of new songs alone, accompanied only by her guitar and the occasional trill of an organ.
Raw and revelatory, the material picked apart a still fresh break-up and found Olsen in a deeply vulnerable state.It was this that hammered in the foundations of ‘All Mirrors’, which saw Olsen building upon those songs with sweeping symphonics, creating a dramatic album of modern noir that garnered her best reviews yet, including a five star summation in NME. “The orchestral arrangements themselves are things of beauty,” we said of the record’s powerful.
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