Listen To ‘Parliament Of Owls’ From Agnes Obel’s Upcoming Album, ‘Myopia’
The rising Danish star’s new album is set for global release on 21 February.
Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel has shared a new track, ‘Parliament Of Owls’, which you can check out below.
‘Parliament Of Owls’ is also one of the highlights of the Danish singer-songwriter’s highly anticipated new album Myopia, which is set for release through Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music Group’s prestigious Yellow Label, and Blue Note in North America, on 21 February.
Following the same principles as with her previous albums (Philharmonics, Aventine and Citizen Of Glass), which she completed as a one-woman project in her own Berlin home studio, Obel has been under self-imposed creative isolation with the removal of all outside influences and distraction in the writing, recording and mixing process for Myopia.
“The albums I’ve worked on have all required that I build a bubble of some kind in which everything becomes about the album. For me the production is intertwined with the lyrics and story behind the songs,” says Obel. This is precisely what makes her music so compelling and the same is true with Myopia.
“Paradoxically, for me I need to create my own myopia to make music,” she says, speaking of the album’s creation, which saw Obel experimenting with techniques of recording processing, warping and pitching down vocals, strings, piano, celesta and lutheal piano, finding ways to melt these elements together to become one.
In support of Myopia, Agnes Obel will be playing across Europe on a headline tour in Spring 2020, and will be joining Dead Can Dance as their special guest across North America in April and May. Her itinerary kicks off with a sold-out show at London’s Rough Trade East on Myopia’s release date – 21 February – and he European dates also include two nights at Copenhagen’s KB Hallen (27 and 28 February) and a further London show at the Eventim Apollo on 9 April. Visit the artist’s official website for tickets and further information about all the dates.
Myopia is out on 21 February and can be bought here.
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