Myopia

by Agnes Obel

Myopia cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 February 2020
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Country: Denmark
  • Length: 39:52
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded entirely in isolation within her Berlin home studio, the Danish singer-songwriter crafts a deeply intimate, spectral album heavily focused on vocal manipulation and pitch-shifting. The arrangements rely on minimalist piano motifs and sorrowful strings to explore themes of trust, self-doubt, and the distortion of memory. It serves as a beautiful, nocturnal entry in her increasingly cinematic discography.

Genres

Descriptors: ballad, atmospheric, chamber, piano, string arrangements

Tracklist

  1. Camera's Rolling (4:43)
  2. Broken Sleep (4:55)
  3. Island of Doom (5:29)
  4. Roscian (2:17)
  5. Myopia (5:16)
  6. Drosera (2:27)
  7. Can't Be (3:26)
  8. Parliament Of Owls (2:29)
  9. Promise Keeper (4:29)
  10. Won't You Call Me (4:16)

Credits

  • Charlotte Danhier - cello
  • Kristina Koropecki - cello
  • Heino Leja - lacquer cut by
  • John Corban - violin

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