Susanne Sundfør - "Ten Love Songs"

what a voice - sigh

yeah

that was awesome

Another one with Röyksopp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_6LjSmZqo

in total, that's 5 songs on the three Röyksopp albums this year
https://www.facebook.com/susannesundfor/videos/r%C3%B6yksopp-stay-awhile-ft-susanne-sundf%C3%B8r/479643497342027/

+ she got married over the Summer
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=627253205427198

I wonder what the song was for the first dance

Digging through various Fleetwood Mac-youtubes looking for Christine nuggets, I found this magnificent Stevie-cover from Norwegian TV (yes, the host at the start is Happy Tom from Turbo). Notably, Susanne is convering the 1981 rehearsal version, which is among the most beautiful things known to man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65ffDfGGac

Hadn't heard about the soundtrack she did for the movie Self Portrait, looking forward to listening.

New music coming?

23rd February 2023 pic.twitter.com/jhi8RqgHwE

— Susanne Sundfør (@susannesundfor) February 14, 2023

!

Please let it be new music

new line of chandeliers

https://www.stereogum.com/2214704/susanne-sundfor-alyosha-leikara-ljod-blomi/music/

i like these a lot more than anything on the last album

pretty fantastic stuff

I can't listen now but excited

the second of these has an extremely unfortunate first two minutes. i was on the cusp of a denunciatory post and then she started doing vocal harmony things. still don't think we particularly needed to hear sundfor's idea of gospel music, and as i type she's abandoned the harmony stuff and gone back to the cringe. wasn't into the first single too much either but it was about the level of the previous album. the more she releases the clearer it is that TLS was a once-a-career work

Well she's allergic to doing the same album twice so in that way I agree TLS is probably a once-a-career work. It's natural if it remains her best work too, considering how good it is. She also said she was burnt out after producing all those bangers mostly by herself.

HOWEVER, she's definitely put out synth pop songs as good as some of those on TLS before that album. And other incredible songs before and after.

The snippet that ends the 2nd tracks is the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle played pretty traditionally, I think it'd be fun if she explored that more on the new album. Both these songs slap.

She also said she was burnt out after producing all those bangers mostly by herself.

Which is why a Susanne Sundfør LP co-produced by Röyksopp makes so much sense!

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

kind of an incredible move releasing your wedding video as an actual music video. congrats Susanne!

(April 28 gonna be a big album release day for me between this, Avalon Emerson and Jessie Ware)

love that

<3

pretty good album, i like it a lot more than music for people in trouble but it's obviously no ten love songs.

three of the ten tracks being spoken word is a little much for my taste but the second of those at least has a cool instrumental

I was a bit nervous about the spoken word songs ruining the flow similar to the latest Lana Del Rey, but they totally work here. Need to spend time with this album as there's so much to take in but there's some really gorgeous moments here. I love how loose it all feels.

I gave it one listen yesterday. It was pouring rain here - perfect weather to light a candle and put on a singer-songwriter album. Don't have any specific comments off that one listen, but I really enjoyed it.

xp well it helps that two of the spoken word tracks are just the intro and outro and the other has a compelling enough backing

There are some great songs here, like the entire "ashera's song" -> "ru​̄​nā" sequence (Susanne doing Scott 4/psych-folk-ABBA is a good look)...though I'm not sure the whole album adds up, the back half is (so far) a bit dispensable apart from "alyosha".

The flute part in sannu yarru li reminds me of a relatively famous jazz or funk song. it's on the tip of my tongue and I feel like an idiot for not recognizing it.

I gave it one listen yesterday. It was pouring rain here - perfect weather to light a candle and put on a singer-songwriter album. Don't have any specific comments off that one listen, but I really enjoyed it.

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Just here to repeat this, basically. This is a great, chill album. Just flipped the disc from Fare Thee Well to Leikara Ljóð. Great sequencing there.

Still wondering about the flute part I mentioned in my last post. We have some kind of rolling thread for recognizing melodies on ilx, but I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.

Found it! I was thinking of Fishbone: Can anyone identify which song used this melody?

nice bigger-band live version of blómi: https://susannesundfor.bandcamp.com/track/bl-mi-feat-rohey-taalah-live-from-trondheim

beautiful