With notes of jazz, pop and trip hop, ’Blindsided’ tells the story of a one-sided love-euphoria and is the first ever release by the 21-year-old independent artist.
Agnes Rangel seduces with her pristine, pure voice and a vulnerable touch on her almost shy melodies and songs. Here, there’s room for both a bubbling infatuation and angry jealousy but it is in this completely intimate space that honesty and feelings arise between herself and the listener.
‘Blindsided’ is the debut single by young songwriter and musician who grew up listening to and playing the classical piano. But when she moved away from home and into her own, tiny 1-room flat where the grand piano didn’t fit, she eventually nicked her younger sisters’ toy-guitar, taught herself to play chords and began to write her own songs…
“I’d say I’ve grown as an artist very organically. I started making music when I moved into a tiny studio-apartment, and stole my sister’s toy-guitar, so I had something to do with my hands. I added lyrics and melodies as a cover-up for how horrible my guitar-playing skills were in the beginning.”
Agnes reveals
“At first, I had no intention of doing music professionally, but songs kinda just flowed from there. I started playing with some guys from my school, got accepted into a Danish community called SheCanPlay, started working with a producer from Copenhagen and my confidence in my music gradually grew for every small step in my career. Now I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
In other words, music has always been a part of Agnes Rangel. With ‘Blindsided’ a new sound was explored and found – a sound that embraces her honest lyrical universe and a sound that makes her acoustic guitar and beloved piano stand out on a jazz-electronical soundscape with an energy of a long-lost trip hop-era. The theme of the song comes from her own bitter experience. Agnes tells:
“The song is about a beautiful friendship and how a one-sided love-euphoria can mess up everything. About how, what was meant to be a declaration of love between best friends, became a final, brutal quarrel and a recurring nightmare of total confusion and excruciating pain. I wrote ‘Blindsided’ in the middle of the night with all these emotions circulating around inside my body. I recorded it the morning after.”
“I got in a really bad fight with my best friend, just as I was about to confess my very unrequited love for him. It really hurt. The entire song is referencing things we said or did that night. It’s that feeling of realizing, the love-euphoria you’ve spent the last couple of months in, has actually been a one-sided rush. I recorded Blindsided the very next day.”
