All Mirrors, Angel Olsen's fifth album, arrived on Friday (October 4) with songs fleshed out by a 12-piece string section. Pitchfork's review describes grand gestures about romance, authenticity and being simply at the mercy of how we feel.

According to the review, the songs were written in Anacortes, where love and, consequently, her identity became an illusion. What ended up on the album are bemused questions about why she would suppress her needs and why she had to deny what she was going through.

A few months after completing those sessions, Olsen recorded a second version of the album, with string arrangements by Ben Babbitt and Jherek Bischoff and production by John Congleton. That is the record listeners hear, more expansive than the initial takes.