Ten love songs (2015)/ Susanne Sundfør

"Halfway through Sundførs sixth album, the listener stumbles across a vast, 10-minute edifice made up of sepulchral organ, weeping strings, Abbaeseque chord changes, a lyric in which Sundfør asserts shes so darned sad about the heartless man who took off her dress, and then five minutes in a chamber music section that lasts three and a half minutes. "Memorial", then, is fittingly titled: its lachrymose almost to the point of self-parody, yet utterly magnificent. Sundfør is a star in her native Norway, and its completely understandable. "Ten Love Songs" shows a command of artpop, chilly synthpop, and that simultaneously joyous and desperate disco that seems to seep out of Scandinavia in an unending flood: its both appealingly direct yet perfectly thought-through. The way the bass hook in "Fade Away", a straight pinch from scores of dancefloor hits before, is kept stiff and hard seems to symbolie a mood of thwarted desire. Brilliant album." (Michael Hann, The Guardian; 5 uit 5 sterren!!!)

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