Dark Vibes

We dropped our skulls to the floor
Just to stop you from talking
It’s been days since the low
Such a fever should dull
At the foot of it all
This test should end here
But then we see the back of it’s neck
Something in the way that it steps
Oh it moves us
Like fire 
Like fire 
Like a fire
It’s been
Days and days and days and days and days and days and days and days
Since we last left
Maybe we should go on from this one
Maybe we should not
But it still
Gives the same answers
Oh it moves me
Oh it moves me
Oh you move me
Like fire
Like a fire
Like a fire
Oh you move me
Like a fire
Like a fire
Like a fire

Faces

Tookah

The Danish-born Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel landed a pan-European hit with her disarmingly beautiful debut album ‘Philharmonics’. After seven weeks at #1 in Denmark and hitting the Top 10 in both France and the Netherlands, the deluxe double CD version of the album will be released in the UK on May 2nd on Play It Again Sam.

Entirely self-produced and performed, ‘Philharmonics’ opens with the instrumental piano piece ‘Falling, Catching’ which sets the tone for Obel’s classically inspired songwriting. The next track, ‘Riverside’, flows with a depth of emotion embedded with further character by Obel’s love of combining her sweet melodies with carefully considered lyrics that evoke the song’s innate sound. ‘Just So’ works a similar trick, its blend of melancholy and optimism perfectly encapsulated into the opening line ‘Black turns beat me bright.’ Elsewhere, with ‘On Powdered Ground’, ‘Brother Sparrow’ or her interpretation of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch’, she melds different moods and atmospheres, all indelibly linked by the brittle majesty of her music.

The deluxe edition of the album adds a second CD featuring six tracks recorded at Obel’s recent acclaimed residency of sold-out shows in Copenhagen and five instrumental piano performances.

As a child, Obel was subconsciously guided into music by the influence of her mother and father, who would play and listen to a blend of the classical greats, folk music like Jan Johansson and the timeless sounds of Roy Orbison. After discovering the likes of Portishead and Elliott Smith as a teenager, she began writing her own piano-based songs, but it wasn’t until she moved to Berlin in 2006 that she began recording an album.

Many of the songs on ‘Philharmonics’ have subconsciously found an audience through their use in film and television. ‘Just So’ soundtracked a Deutsch Telekom advert, which gave Obel the unusual combination of having a song that everyone knew while having almost no profile as an artist herself. But soon opportunities presented themselves and continue to do so. One of Obel’s earliest breaks came when three of her demos featured in cult director Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino – ‘Riverside’ earned her a Robert Award (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Song of the Year. Her music also reached a bigger North American and international audience when ‘Riverside’ was used in Grey’s Anatomy.

iTunes extended Obel’s profile further by requesting an exclusive release of ‘Philharmonics’ and highlighting Obel on the home page of their North American website. The attention of the press has been consistently positive with Vogue and culture magazine Telerama producing in-depth features in France, while Obel will also feature in both the North American and European issues of TIME.

Official website – www.agnesobel.com
Official facebook – www.facebook.com/agnesobelofficial
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Official youtube - http://www.youtube.com/agnesobel


Agnes Obel - Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

The David Lynch remix of 'Fuel To Fire' is available on the deluxe edition of 'Aventine'. Released October 6th.

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"I loved doing this remix,” says Lynch.  “I was turned onto Agnes' music through my record label...I think she has a most beautiful voice and can do things with her voice that are unique and extraordinary"

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Fuel To Fire (David Lynch Remix)

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Lyrics:

Girl plays guitar, because she loves that song,
and she dreams one day, she’ll be someone,
She plays that song ten times a day,
Not caring what, her neighbours say,
Her idle sings on night tv,
Which is where she sees, her life to be,
Her inner drive amounts the pressure,
It heaps on burden - must do better,
She tries and tries , then finds herself,
a life of fame, and worthy wealth,
She plays her song on night tv,
And now she’s where, she'd longed to be,
but through this time, her idol sank,
he threw his fame, he scored, he drank,
He lost a lot along the way,
but now he’s strong and back to play,
He plans again to be someone,
and on his wireless, he hears a song,
The song it changes everything,
inspiring hope, and highs in him,
The song was written by a girl,
She lives her life, but she bares her soul…

She had changed what's next because she took a deeper breath,
and he had learnt that who he was could change.

Who we are can change. 

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Full Circle Influence

2015 UK & European Tour Announced. Click here: smarturl.it/finkautumntour for all dates & tickets.

Probably our favourite track from Hard Believer, co-written with with our old partner-in-crime Blair Mackichan - finally released as a single. Video, directed by skate legend Foley, here: http://youtu.be/eRjm9dupL1k

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Motherland is a conqueror's skin; a child that needs to be held; an asshole who never tells the truth. It's the birth and death of your ancestors and descendants happening at the same instant, a chrysalis, liquid, warm and viscous, carrying memories from a past life into a new one.

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Motherland

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