Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

All Mirrors is the fourth studio album by American indie rock singer songwriter Angel Olsen, released in October 2019 via Jagjaguwar Records.

Angel Olsen is an American folk and indie rock singer and guitarist who has recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, before embarking on her own career. Angel Olsen began singing as a young girl in St. Louis. Her self-released debut EP, Strange Cacti, belied both that early period of discovery and her Midwestern roots. Olsen then went further on Half Way Home (2012), her first full-length album, which mined essential themes while showcasing a more developed voice. Olsen dared to be more personal.

Olsen’s artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work and then she formed bands to play her songs and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path and on her vulnerable, big mood new album, All Mirrors, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. In the process of making this album, she found a new sound and voice, a blast of fury mixed with hard won self-acceptance.

“In every way - from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward - this record is about owning up to your darkest side,” says Olsen. “Finding the capacity for new love and trusting change, even when you feel like a stranger. This is a record about facing yourself and learning to forgive what you see. It is about losing empathy, trust, love for destructive people. It is about walking away from the noise and realizing that you can have solitude and peace in your own thoughts, that your thoughts alone can be just as valid, if not more.”

The new album was produced by John Congleton (St Vincent, John Grant, Future islands, Goldfrapp, Spoon, Sleater Kinney) and has strings arranged by Jherek Bischoff.

A wildly ambitious record; by far Olsen’s boldest, expansive and immersive work to date.

This double album is a limited edition 2LP set on crystal clear vinyl housed in a tip-on heavyweight gatefold sleeve with silver foil and 12 page booklet, poster and download code, pressed in the US via Jagjaguwar.