Susanne Sundfør - "Ten Love Songs"

I thought it was an appropriately dramatic closer, though. It helped that the piano player/clarinetist she was playing with was incredible

She was strictly solo in Toronto - I have to say, "Mantra" sounded way better on keyboards than acoustic guitar

I was sort of surprised at how close she came to selling out a decent-size venue considering I don't believe her albums have ever gotten a physical release here

I liked how Anja is always playing Music for People in Trouble in Joachim Trier's Thelma. Helped clarify a deliberately underwritten character.

I sprung for the vinyl copy of the record and, it's not cheap, but it's one of the most beautifully packaged records I've bought in years

i'm as bitey as a shark

I can't unhear this btw, but it makes me so happy anyway

More European dates for 2018 added:
http://bellaunion.com/2017/12/susanne-sundfor-announces-eu-dates-for-2018/

I also bought the vinyl edition recently. The URL on the download card doesn't seem to be correct. Has anyone else been more successful?

I had no trouble with my download url

Thanks, got it now. The issue was an http/https mix up on my part.

Just got tickets for the Manchester show in March.

This album has gone from "meh" to "oh my god, this is fucking awesome" over the months. It's a beautiful record that deserves as much attention as the last one, even if it is a very different (and less immediate) record.

^^ yeah songwriting is still top notch, and there probably aren't ten better singers than Susanne in pop music

I prefer it over even Ten Love Songs. I admired that album's audacity but the songwriting is better here. It's really a feat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIx9snSep88

making it your own, great artist

so within a very short time, i learned about the lady who Bonnie Prince has covered at album length via another thread, and, reading this thread, mistook her for this lady. i am listening to ten love songs now and surely will be purchasing the physical version, and will check out susanna later today. has anyone made the same mistake? likes 'em both? likes one but not the other?

who is this other artist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Wallumrød

New one is sounding gorgeous today. Shift brings to mind Emiliana Torrini’s sparse “Fisherman’s Woman’ album, which is a gem

that is actually a perfect analogy for why the new one was disappointing because "Telepathy" is so far and away the best thing Emiliana Torrini has ever done

<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-uRyOu4YV4

just came here post that stanm. i was lucky enough to be at that concert, the whole thing was filmed, so maybe there's more to come? lovely venue, great acoustics, and she was absolutely amazing from start to finish.

Jesus Christ. She's ridiculous.

otm

that performance of 'Undercover' is breathtaking

New (?) radio doc on SS and Oslo:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkr5nz

Not sure if it's available outside UK.

Amazingly, it's available in the US

it's even available in Europe! Is this the soft brexit then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKcvDUtxp8

(= new song, performed on a Norwegian awards show at the end of October)

waiting for her own arrangement on that to be honest, feels a little generic movie sound track to me. :-/

Same show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1kdI0IygAE

that performance of Undercover is particularly brilliant isn't it, the things she does with her voice 2.50 onwards - not just a technical skill of voice mastery but the way she really sells the sense of loneliness and longing at the song's core

Wow, it's stunning!

she's on Mercury Rev's new album (a tribute to Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 The Delta Sweete) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbGxxIsa5k

“Reincarnation” live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBuhRDL_hGY

Music For People In Trouble - Live from The Barbican out next month.

Out now! 10-minute "Undercover" comes with a bass solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st0i1we9P7s

Kind of wish she had done one of these for Ten Love Songs instead, the arrangements on MFPIT live don't depart that much from the album versions.

Lovely song. Part of the chorus sounded a lot like another tune I couldn't put my finger on at first. I finally realized that it employs a similar melody to Killing Me Softly's "And so I came to see him, to listen for a while…"

Yeah this feels a bit redundant - good vocal performance but I can't see me ever reaching for it over the actual album

I'm glad to have these distended versions, and to have a document of her astonishing live vocals.

i think the vocals in StanM's Youtube link upthread are better than anything on this album

New song!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Pz0crD94099fDlhAc2eA3?si=sruksQ1mQP2NRYpwDevIZw

i like this more than a lot of the last album!

I like it
Thought it was a cover of 'Na na na' by The Knife for a second or two

5-track EP Self Portrait, the soundtrack to the Norwegian documentary Selvportrett, is up on Spotify. It includes “When The Lord”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWFCkcdmZI

getting a little stoned and doing gift shopping in manhattan & brooklyn while listening to ten love songs is one of my all time favorite holiday traditions. A+ perfect record.

The greatest album of all time by a Norwegian artist

My favourite albums by here are still the two she made with Lars Horntvedt from Jaga Jazzist producing in the early 10s, "The Brother" and "The Silicone Veil". Some absolutely beautiful arrangements on those two.

"The Brothel" anyway.

"mountaineers" from music for people in trouble is used to great effect in the norwegian film thelma, currently available on hulu (and unconditionally loved by me)

the second half of "mountaineers" is like dying, in a good way

that's a better description than I could ever have come up with BN, it's a monumental piece of music