Following her critically acclaimed album Aventine, Berlin-based artist Agnes Obel has announced the release of her next LP Citizen Of Glass. Landing October 21st via Play It Again Sam, the new work was produced and mixed by Obel herself. Last month She shared the video for ‘Familiar’, the first single taken from the upcoming record.

Speaking on Citizen Of Glass, in a press statement Agnes Obel wrote:

“The title comes from the German concept of the gläserner bürger, the human or glass citizen. It’s actually a legal term about the level of privacy the individual has in a state, and in health it’s become a term about how much we know about a person’s body or biology or history – if they’re completely made of glass we know everything. There’s an increasing sense in this world that you have to make yourself a bit of glass. To be willing to open up, use yourself as material, and not just if you’re an artist or a musician.”

Obel also stated, “I worked with the title from the very beginning to push myself to do new things. I wanted to push myself conceptually from the starting point, to push the glass theme throughout the songs in different ways – in the lyrics, in the instruments – to do things in a very new way. As an album, it feels bigger to me, a lot bigger.”