Album cover: Agnes Obel, “Philharmonics”

Agnes Obel

Philharmonics

7.9 out of 10

Strung with hopeful iridescent waltzes pressed from a piano, Philharmonics is a staggeringly wise, refined, and enchanting first record. Tiptoeing across the sound waves, Obel repairs her listener’s sense of feminine harmony as each purposeful note in flawless accord with its neighbors unassumingly stirs the imagination and anesthetizes the ego.

Reminds us of: Laura Gibson | Emiliana Torrini | Holly Miranda

Rating: 7.9

Agnes Obel: Official / Myspace

Words by Carrie Johnston

Published on melophobe May 4, 2011.

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