Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics was a work of such carefully thought-out beauty that when news of the impending release of its follow-up, Aventine, emerged a couple of months ago, we were overjoyed and ...

On 2010’s Philharmonics, Danish pianist Agnes Obel infused her songs with a deep and resonant melancholy. Sparse, somber and filled with gently beguiling melodies, it was an unexpected hit in her ...

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Our favorite Danish singer-songwriter and pianist Agnes Obel has announced some exciting news for fans: her hugely successful second studio album, ‘Aventine,’ will see a deluxe edition release -- ...

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Danish musician and singer Agnes Obel was unknown three years ago but has since achieved huge popularity across Europe. Last year she won a European Border Breakers Award for creating music with an ...

The Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel is our guest today. She became a phenomenon in her native Denmark and here in France with her first album "Philharmonics" in 2010. Three years, half a million ...

Agnes Obel is this week's Friday Live guest! The Danish singer-songwriter performs live from her latest album, Aventine. Although Obel grew up in a musical household in Denmark, with a mother who was ...

Obel’s sound-world in hermetic. On stage she introduced few songs and didn’t speak much. The slightly apologetic manner of her last London show had evaporated. With the tentativeness eradicated, this ...

Agnes Obel's 2010 debut Philharmonics grabbed attention through its understatement, eventually achieving quintuple-platinum status in her native Denmark. Aventine follows in like vein: the hushed ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Agnes Obel claims the films of Alfred Hitchcock as an inspiration, and there is indeed a Hitchcockian feel to ...