The eagerly anticipated follow up to Agnes Obel's critically acclaimed 2010 debut album, ‘Philharmonics’, which has sold 450,000 copies across Europe, achieving Platinum status in France and Belgium, Gold in Holland and five times Platinum in her native Denmark, where Agnes picked up five Danish Music Awards (the Danish Brits) in 2011.
All of the songs on ‘Aventine’ were written (music and lyrics), recorded, produced and arranged by Agnes Obel roughly from the beginning of 2012 until late spring 2013, at home in Berlin and in a rented drum studio in the Kreuzberg district.
‘Aventine’ is a beautiful record, intriguingly unhurried. As a second album, ‘Aventine’ adds depth to the picture that would otherwise be left as just a snapshot of brilliance by ‘Philharmonics’ without any real indication of where the journey is headed.