Susanne Sundfør - "Ten Love Songs"

Not into this side of her musical personality at all. sorry you guys

You mean the "I have just written a song here it is, I am playing an instrument I am proficient in" side, prior to production? The creative side?

Yeah I don't think it's a different personality, still feels like her melodies and singing, same thing with "Memorial" starting out years ago as a piano-only 4 minute tune.

Yeah, I'm drinking from the kool aid of this record now, aided in no small part by a Saturday evening drive to it while in an angry mood. Darlings is ridiculously audacious, Silencer is gorgeous, and I could listen to the segue into Fade Away forever. Insects also fantastic! What a way to finish.

I'll get laughed off ILX but the album this reminds me of most is the last Embrace record - overwrought emotional drama, really lush electronic production, massive choruses.

One of the main differences is that Susanne doesn't sing like she permanently has a cold. That gives her a massive advantage over Embrace for me.

This is very true.

Perhaps Johnny Fever is worried the two new songs are evidence of her going into "coffee house" territory or something

I dunno, I'd be quite happy to hear her do a record that's completely in the vein of the version of 'Shame' posted above. Seems to me that she'd do a really great job of it. What a talent.

can we just take a moment to talk about the toaster oven ding in "Fade Away"?

like the last 10 minutes are so serious and dramatic and HUUUUUUGE w/ sweeping soaring vocals and synths and then this tinny muffled little *ding*, there is so much bathos and it is so charming

it's great yeah. 'Your lunch is ready'. And then that whole instrumental bit that follows is taking the bowl out of the microwave with oven gloves and setting it down on a tray.

There's a new single but it's just, like, acoustic w/ no frosty beats or organs or any of that

http://susannesundfor.com/reincarnation/

There's also a new song with Royksopp, 'Never Ever', out today.

The Royksopp single is so good. Best thing they've done since The Girl & the Robot.

they're both fine but lack virtually everything I loved about Ten Love Songs

the royksopp single RULES

i spent the duration of it thinking about how much i love her voice

OMFG

https://www.facebook.com/susannesundfor/photos/a.10150638043317192.410341.247990362191/10155290218442192/

oh my god oh my god oh my god

YES!

Right on

Everyone's coming back this year, eh!?

https://www.facebook.com/susannesundfor/ has been updated with lyrics/photos since then

wait is 06.06.2017 in european date format or american???

XD

It's happening people! New album out on August 25th. It's called Music For People In Trouble.

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/susanne-sundfor-music-for-people-in-trouble/

spotify link is down :(

Global rollout is timezone sensitive. We'll get it at midnight in EDT.

I listened to Undercover here https://songwhisper.tumblr.com/?ref_url=https://s9e.github.io/iframe/tumblr.min.html

agh tumblr link is also being temperamental, this is trump's america

seems like it's not going to be another pop album like Ten Love Songs unfortunately but the single's quite nice

I'm not super into her work prior to the last album, and this is reminiscent of all that, but I think the composition is better? Or more to my liking, at least.

holy shit this is gorgeous

Looks like Reincarnation (posted upthread) is on the album too?

bleh, a staid ballad

Differentiating between 'pop Susanne' and 'non-pop Susanne' is kind of meaningless to me cause she's serving the same amazing melodies either way.

^^^

This song takes off too.

Reading an interview about this in a Norwegian newspaper:

Undercover is "inspired by Dolly Parton", and she goes on to say "country and folk music are genres I always come back to". Album inspired by her recent journeys and the political reality of the world today, apparently.

also bleh, it seems Ten Love Songs is going to be another Love's Victory March i.e. brilliant, sumptuous, colossal album that nothing following will be like

Parts of Ten Love Songs are like this though

those are the parts I don't like

basically I don't understand how someone can go from "Accelerate" and "Insects" to something one step away from an Adele song

holy shit this is gorgeous

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I get the Adele complaint, but c'mon, that pedal steel.

it's not like this side of her is unprecedented or anything, though I'd definitely prefer it if it had a dance beat

I don't care for The Sound of War (the other new song she was playing live) or Reincarnation at all so I'm just thankful that there's something to like about Undercover

idk this is great

also bleh, it seems Ten Love Songs is going to be another Love's Victory March i.e. brilliant, sumptuous, colossal album that nothing following will be like

Seems a little early to make that prediction. New album is the same length as the last one, has an intriguing title and opens with a song called "Mantra." I don't think she's lost her ambition.

This track is heavenly. Could easily see it as an outlier on a Ten Love Songs-esque suite, but I'd just as happily take an entire LP of ballads this beautifully composed and personable

She started out doing piano ballads - only, her piano ballads are as different from other piano ballads as her pop songs are.