Ten Love Songs
by Susanne Sundfør
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 February 2015
- Label: Warner Music Norway, Kobalt Label Services
- Country: Norway
- Length: 46:35
- Community rating: 3.98/5 from 14 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Ten Love Songs', Susanne Sundfør pivots to a more direct and grand electronic pop sound, while ironically exploring lyrical themes of violence, vulnerability, and the obsessive, darker facets of love. Taking on the primary producer role, she constructed a soundscape rich with Italo disco rhythms, vintage hardware synthesizers, and lush orchestral movements, retaining the cold, bleak feel of her earlier work within more immediate pop structures. The album, which features key collaborations with M83's Anthony Gonzalez and Röyksopp, balances its ambitious, multi-layered production and soaring vocal performances with a raw, personal lyrical approach, earning widespread critical acclaim.
Genres
Descriptors: electronic, orchestral, synth, maximalist, bombastic
Tracklist
Credits
- Susanne Sundfør - vocals, arrangements, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, autoharp, harmonium, celesta, cembalo, drum programming, grand piano, rhodes piano, percussion, production, recording, written-by, arranged by
- Gard Nilssen - drums, percussion
- Lars Horntveth - arrangements, classical guitar, synthesizers, production, recording
- Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen - bass guitar
- Anthony Gonzalez - electric guitar, drum programming, synthesizers, co-production, recording
- Jon Bates - synthesizers, drum programming, electronics, "microwave oven", additional production
- Jørgen Træen - synthesizers, drum programming, electronics, recording, mixing
- Josh Humphrey - electronics, recording
- Abe Seiferth - electronics, recording
- Nils Martin Larsen - synthesizers, recording
- Morten Qvenild - celesta, recording
- Trondheim Soloists - strings
- Anders Larsen - first violin
- Anna Adolfsson Vestad - first violin
- Erling Skaufel - first violin
- Stina Elisabet Andersson - first violin
- Åse Våg Aaknes - first violin
- Tora Stølan Ness - second violin
- Hilde Kjøll - second violin
- Ingrid Martine Wisur - second violin
- Nella Penjin - second violin
- Frøydis Tøsse - viola
- Anne Våg Aaknes - viola
- Ragnhild Torp - viola
- Cecilie Koch - cello
- Marit Aspås - cello
- Eivind Rossbach Heier - cello
- Rolf Hoff Baltzersen - double bass
- Morten Myklebust - acoustic guitar
- Iver Sandøy - percussion
- Röyksopp - additional production
- Marcus Forsgren - recording
- Mike Marsh - mastered by
- Grady McFerrin - artwork
- Magnus Rakeng - layout
- Simon Davey - mastered by