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AGNES OBEL – MYOPIA //Deutsche Grammophon// (Released 21st February)

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£31.99 – 1xLP Indies Exclusive Blue Vinyl

 

£27.99 – Black LP

 

“For me Myopia is an album about trust and doubt. Can you trust yourself or not? Can you trust your
own judgments? Can you trust that you will do the right thing? Can you trust your instincts and what
you are feeling? Or are your feelings skewed?” – Obel

For almost a decade, Agnes Obel has been one of the most independent and original artists in contemporary
music. Now she has returned with new music, releasing the enchanting single “Island Of Doom”, ahead of
the release of her highly anticipated new album Myopia – through Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music
Group’s prestigious Yellow Label, and Blue Note in North America, out on 21 February 2020.

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. “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.” Obel was 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 and twisting them in a way that you feel at home within the sound she
conjures throughout the record.

Although Obel’s music can often curate a monologue of modern-day dystopian-esque news stories that we
are all now subject to, the contents of “Island Of Doom” are much more personal, as she explains: “The song
is made up of pitched-down piano and cello pizzicato and vocals, all choirs are pitched down and up… In my
experience when someone close to you dies it is simply impossible to comprehend that you can’t ever talk to
them or reach them somehow ever again. They are in many ways still alive because in your consciousness
nothing has changed, they’re still there with everyone else you know.”

Created by long-term collaborator and partner Alex Brüel Flagstad, the video perfectly visualises the
experience and mystery of Myopia, which can be defined as “the quality of being short-sighted”.

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Black LP, Indies Only Blue Coloured Vinyl LP