Berlin seems quiet at the moment, and Agnes Obel is happy to be home. In the midst of a global pandemic, her major metropolis is seesawing between some semblance of repair and being locked down.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Much of Agnes Obel’s fourth album takes place at night. “Broken Sleep” finds the Danish singer-songwriter ...

Danish musician and songwriter Agnes Obel has announced her fourth LP, Myopia, due out February 21 via Blue Note. She’s shared the haunting, delicate first single “Island of Doom,” and about it, she ...

For almost a decade, Agnes Obel has been one of the most unique and genre-defying artists in contemporary music. Today, Obel has released Myopia, her highly-anticipated new album which is out now on ...

Danish songwriter Agnes Obel’s fourth album was sparked by a struggle to escape her “own tunnel vision”. “I wanted to depict that sense of being trapped within a state of mind with very little ...

The Danish singer-songwriter and pianist Agnes Obel has always been a self-sufficient experimentalist, writing, recording, performing and producing her records entirely on her own. Her forthcoming ...

Agnes Obel tells Ed Power how she channelled the grief from her father’s death into her music The death of a parent is one of life’s most traumatic rites of passage. For Agnes Obel the pain of losing ...

It’s 9am on a miserable, British, winter morning and Agnes Obel has resurfaced from some time in seclusion: writing, recording, producing and mixing her fourth album Myopia. Being away from ...

Agnes Obel has suffered a bump to the head. A thick, white plaster sits near the Danish musician’s left eyebrow which she forgets about at one point, accidentally touches and winces. She doesn’t say ...