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Myopia

Agnes Obel

Myopia

Fourth album from the Danish singer-songwriter was self-produced

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
DG
UK Release date
21/02/2020
US Release date
21/02/2020
  1. 8.0 |   The Independent

    This cohesive mood piece casts a hypnotic spell
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  2. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Agnes Obel is one of these rare musicians nowadays that has a unique and sophisticated identity and yet continues to experiment within those myopic boundaries
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Agnes Obel's Myopia is delicate and personal, employing treated vocals and piano to plow depths of sorrow and interrogate dark storms of the soul
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  4. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    The Danish songwriter’s ghostly chamber pop experiments form their own foggy landscape, inviting you into a creeping mist where vocals and piano smear together
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  5. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Obel's open-ended ideas are deeply affecting — a testament to an artist who can let out more of herself the more confined she feels
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  6. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    In this time-pressured, distraction-heavy world in which we live, the appearance of an album that offers beautiful surroundings in which to slow down and decompress should be welcomed wholeheartedly
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  7. 7.0 |   All Music

    It's elegant, regal even, yet so immersed in its icy solitude that the listener is often left looking for cracks in the facade instead of common ground
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  8. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Does feel monotonous after a while, the tunnel vision metaphor ultimately extending to the listener's experience. Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   The FT

    Sleepless nights and graveyard scenes haunt the Danish singer-songwriter’s new album
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