Latest Release
- 5 JAN 2024
- 24 Songs
- Aventine · 2013
- Aventine · 2013
- Aventine · 2013
- Citizen of Glass · 2016
- Citizen of Glass · 2016
- Aventine · 2013
- Philharmonics · 2010
- Aventine (Deluxe Version) · 2014
- Aventine · 2013
- Myopia · 2020
Essential Albums
- Those who fell in love with Agnes Obel’s wistful voice and the somber songs that graced her 2010 Riverside EP are sure to succumb to the charms of her debut album Philharmonics. Born in Copenhagen (but residing in Berlin), Obel sings beautifully melancholic ballads with breathy and bewitching inflections. “Falling, Catching” is a minute-and-a-half instrumental piano piece that perfectly introduces the stark beauty of “Riverside” before “Brother Sparrow” adds on lightly strummed acoustic guitars and a second vocal track making her singing sound more dusky and mysterious. She turns John Cale’s “Close Watch” into a spectral lullaby akin to Marissa Nadler’s best moments. Standout song “Just So” was featured in a German Deutsche Telekom commercial and in the soundtrack to Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino. It plays like the album’s centerpiece with a spare architecture of piano, gently plucked strings, and feathery vocal harmonies allowing plenty of room for a big beautiful melody to blossom and wilt before your very ears with a fantastical beauty — like waking up in a fresh snow bank to the sound of sirens singing "Edelweiss".
Albums
- 2020
- 2016
- 2010
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- These songs of bewitching melancholy launched a velvet-voiced star.
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About Agnes Obel
Singer, songwriter, and musician Agnes Obel’s debut album, Philharmonics, went six-times Platinum in her native Denmark. ∙ Obel said she named her third album Citizen of Glass because she wanted to explore ideas about living transparently in the contemporary world. ∙ Citizen of Glass won the European Independent Album of the Year award at IMPALA, an organization established to promote independent European music. ∙ In 2018, Obel signed an exclusive deal with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label. ∙ Her songs were featured on such TV shows as Grey’s Anatomy (“Riverside”), Hanna (“Dorian”), and Dark (“Familiar,” “It’s Happening Again,” and “Broken Sleep”). ∙ The 2020 release Myopia landed on the “Best of” lists of several influential indie tastemakers, including Brooklyn’s Albumism music website.
- HOMETOWN
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- BORN
- 28 October 1980
- GENRE
- Alternative