Starting out as singer/songwriter with pop/folk tendencies, she now has a huge band and huge sound.
She is on Progarchives, and she should be!

 

To me, she's the new Joni Michell or Kate Bush.
Superb. Here's a great solo-performance of her on the Rhodes piano, played stripped down versions of some of her more recent songs.

 

It's even rude to say that, also sexist. And I'm not like that.

I said it, because I want to trigger others to give her a chance.

She really understood, that she wouldn't be conquering the world following that road.

The trilogy Brother/Silicone Veil/Ten Love Songs is indeed a more electric/eclectic affair.

 

The instrumental/ambient A Night at Salle Pleyel is also a totally different piece of cake.

 

I wonder what she comes with next. She worked with Röyksopp, Kleerup and M83, maybe she'll do some triphop next, but I think she'll continu with the road she's taken.

Or maybe, like Natasha, she will make a more intimate album, next.
Susanne did release a new single recently, let's see if I can find it.

The Norwegians surely knows who she is, because she was a contender to the Norwegian Songfestival thingy.

I call her up-and-coming, because I would think it would be great if her singles broke through the top40, and she would do a worldtour. I would really want that for her.

Apart for critizing my original post, what do you think of her and her music?

Susanne offered it as a download. So I have the song on my Phone. It's a great song.

 

I didn't know she did soundtracks. What kind of movie is Oblivion?

 

End credits

No need to see the movie then.
No just kidding. I like sci-fi....

- White Foxes: again the build-up, but lots and lots of vocal hooks. Also my spiritanimal is a fox. Go figure ;)

- Rome: this song has so many twists and turns. Also a great outtro.

- Memorial: a great progressive epic with a wonderful middle part. I can really dream away on this one.

- The Brothel: a superb track with again a great outtro

 

What Susanne does, is build and build and build until a great climax, but she doesn't quit at the climax and often has very interesting outtros

I can't even remember if any of her songs have a fade-out. I don't think so. That's what makes her music so great.

From the intimate concert in your opening post: before she starts singing it, she says its a brand new song she finished earlier that same morning so she had bring a text sheet. 

-even more intimate. Her songs and her voice shines in any kind of arrangement or context.  A true artist:

Many regard The Silicone Veil as better.

But the best thing (imo) is to start with The Brothel and then The Silcone Veil and then Ten Love Songs.

- btw: while pretty enough I'm not too keen on that latest single release posted earlier. Hope that its more of a one-off "breather" in between more ambitious stuff. 

Some lyrics take a while to sink in. But a lyric like like 'Please Go Slowly' is apparently is about abuse. She sings to the abuser to go slow so she can fully experience the feeling. It gives me a chill down my spine.

Also The Brothel is about prostetution and all its horros, and she ends the song with:

 

An acoustic piano version of The Silicone Veil and a beautiful heartfelt interview.

I love it when it's just her on the Fender Rhodes. I wish she recorded another album like Take One with stripped-out versions of songs from the last three albums.

 

I love it to. But also when she plays grand piano or any other acoustic piano.

Do you know / have you heard Kontorkonsert med Susanne Sundfør?

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Kotro wrote: What about A Night at Salle Pleyel, no opinions on that?

 

I love that album. It's more or less and ambient album. I love synths very much, so that album is really up my creek. I have a digital version at home.

 

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Already got for my tickets for The Union Chapel in October.

I'm a huge fan of her's, my favorite "pop" singer. Magnificent avantgarde songwriting, all kinds of subversion's of lyrical themes and just complete unpredictability. 

I'm still amazed there's a thread here, I'm so happy! :)))

Many congratulations, sir. You are now entitled to experience a pleasure long denied to the rest of us - the pleasure of getting to hear Susanne for the very first time. Lucky b*****d. 

Indeed, she is a fairly new discovery for me but you are in for a treat.

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It's much more folk and acoustic than ever.

The trio of albums Brothel/Silicone Veil/Ten Love Songs were really eclectic and electric.
New album is a return to the roots of Susanne. She started out as a piano-playing singer-songwriter.

I like the heavy side of Susanne but also the soft side, so this album feels as a welcome suprise, for the cold and rainy days coming.

18 september I see her play in Amsterdam. Can't wait.

-quite the opposite album of Ten Love Songs. So quiet, introverted and well... comforting. The record company will probably be disappointed in regards to album sales - or maybe not. I would have chosen the B-side of This Boots Ae Made For Walking as the A-side, so what do I know. I was expecting to be a little disappointed myself actually but this is another artistic triumph from something as rare as a genuine artist working within popular music. The mood somehow reminds me of Linda Perhacs - Parallograms (that actual song, but also to some extent the whole album) although Susanne is more pompous and grand - which I mean in a descriptive way and not as something negative at all.

In short and after one listen: album of the year (not that I've heard that many others but it still rings true).

If she would have made another grande electroprogpop album, maybe we would have been dissapointed.

Now she chose for something completely different. An album wich grows and grows with every listen.

And the vocals are much more upfront.

I agree that The Sound of War is already the stand-out track.

SO excited!

 

Oh, and not a good idea to have an upright piano placed on stage so that a third of the audience couldn't see her behind it!

That's the way it goes, it happened to me as well.

The lady playing with her on Monday was Megan Kovacs, who is credited on the new album.