From Technology to Timelessness - Agnes Obel: The Echoes Podcast
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Agnes Obel sings songs that seem to have emerged from the forgotten chambers of an ancient church. The voices are mysterious, the words not always intelligible, and the weight of years seems to rise like smoke from a thurible. That’s the sound of Obel’s first album in six years, The Meaning of Flowers which might make it sound foreboding, but it’s beautifully composed music, with melodies that linger in your memory long after the music fades away.
Obel’s previous album, Myopia, was released in 2020. So it’s hardly surprising that the pandemic became part of the story behind this recording. While in lockdown in Berlin, she began making an album about technology, but along the way, something happened.
Agnes Obel: And then I discovered I was pregnant in, I think it was June 2020. And I immediately felt like I had to sort of document just what was happening in my mind. Musically, that’s the best way I know how to sort of journal things in a way.
We talk to Agnes Obel in the Echoes Podcast.
Read our review of Agnes Obel’s The Meaning of Flowers
Read our review of Agnes Obel’s Myopia