Susanne Sundfør - "Ten Love Songs"

yeah "insects" is incredible, the production is totally wild

'insects' sort of reminds me of bjork's 'pluto'

or something off to venus and back

i've been obsessed with "trust me" lately

'Insects' is absolutely amazing, and I don't understand why one would wanna skip 'Accelerate' to get to 'Fade Away'... those tracks are joined together so seamlessly that I often think of them as one thing.

ts: the accelerate => fade away transition vs the memorial => delirious transition

(a: memorial/delirious)

yeah me too

TG meets ABBA is a lofty and weird claim for sure

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Yeah, 'Memorial' -> 'Delirious' definitely the correct answer!

Delirious is so fucking good.

I keep thinking you're talking about the Christian band Deliriou5

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=18731

katherine, Alfred et al <3

AND JOSHYWINTY

so I just discovered this

apologies lex, you didn't want to hear this, but I. am. on. BOARD!

hell yeah!

it's all about 'accelerate' -> 'fade away' for me

everyone saying that 'silencer' is a skipper is mad. mad!

'Silencer' is amazing - 'Trust Me' is the one I most regularly feel the urge to skip.

yeah that is literally the only song on the album that doesn't really grab me

these songs are both bold and intricate

Had this album hanging around on my HD for months but decided to give it a proper listen the other night. It's proper good innit?

I like it a lot, and I thank The Singles Jukebox for pushing "Accelerate" down my gullet.

i like the fact that 'slowly' seems to improve with every listen for me

I had somehow missed this album entirely until finding this thread and then subsequently listening to (and then immediately purchasing) an extremely rewarding record; so once again I say thank u based ILX for turning me on to an album I like a whole lot. very heartened to see how the general consensus is that everyone who seems to have liked this album upon first contact as much as I did only liked it more over time, which is a Very Good Sign.

my physical copy of Ten Love Songs is still en route from Sweden, but the copy of The Brothel that I snagged off a US-based eBayer showed up today. my initial take is that Ten Love Songs is the decidedly superior album (and it's also easier to access since The Brothel isn't on Spotify), but holy ding-dong-doodly-fuck @ "Knight of Noir":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBtx71Df2w8

blocked on copyright grounds

I just officially ~got into~ this album over the past 48h listening to it like six times snowed in during a blizzard

it just occurred to me that this is basically an entire album of "Sprawl II" which kind of makes me love it even more?

also it somehow manages to be enchanting w/o being precious which I feel like is a very difficult thing to do.

I only listened to "Delirious" and "Fade Away" both of which are Super Trouper as fuck, esp. the former. I'm down!

Listening to this album is like being snowed in during a blizzard (a compliment).

Unreleased track performed on Norwegian TV this weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemIB2CprVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7HeNdR7jc

another unreleased track

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