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The clash of pure pop with malfunctioning machine sounds and harsh, austere rhythms shouldn’t work, but Sundfør’s music is astonishing
The fact that Susanne Sundfør’s Ten Love Songs topped the charts in her native Norway rather makes you want to take your hat off to the mainstream record buyers of Trondheim and Fredrikstad. No easy MOR pop for them: on Ten Love Songs, Sundfør’s radio-friendly tunes and intriguing lyrics – “nothing’s ever easy when you take ecstasy” opens Trust Me – crash against expansive mock-classical interludes, punishing industrial rhythms and vaguely proggy touches. In Britain, it’s the kind of thing that would almost automatically condemn you to critically acclaimed cult status: back home, it’s her third No 1 in a row.
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