Agnes Obel announces new album with enchanting lead single "Island Of Doom"

"Island Of Doom" is Obel's first new single since 2018's "Poem About Death", which featured on her Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel compilation.

Obel says of the new single, "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."

The Danish singer/songwriter's new album Myopia will follows on from 2016's Citizen of Glass.

Discussing the new LP, Obel says, "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?"

Myopia was recorded at Obel's Berlin home studio, the same process that she used to create her previous records. She says of her 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."