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Agnes Obel On World Cafe

With an army of strings backing up heavy lyrics, the Danish songwriter's session might just give you the shivers.
Danish songwriter Agnes Obel's session might give you the shivers for more than one reason. Her latest album, Citizen Of Glass, was named for a pretty eerie concept. "I got the idea from the German term gläserner mensch, which is the term you use when an individual in a state has lost all his or her privacy," she says.

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