Feature: Pursuing The Obel Arts - An Interview With Agnes Obel (The Quietus)

"The music journalist has an hour in which to unlock the secrets of the musician's work and make it interesting to readers, and the musician in turn needs to communicate enough to intrigue the journalist or else the promotional opportunity will have been wasted. Another day in the life…"

Agnes Obel - almost a neighbour of mine, it turns out - is neither shy or especially reserved, but she's about as far from the tired cliché of both a depressed singer songwriter and a mouthy wannabe indie rock star as one could hope. You can find an unusually down-to-earth discussion of what it's like to watch your music go from 0-250,000 in the space of just a few weeks here...

Feature: Pursuing The Obel Arts - An Interview With Agnes Obel (The Quietus)