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Susanne Sundfør: Music for People in Trouble review – smoky, orchestral adventures that derail brilliantly | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Susanne Sundfør: Music for People in Trouble review – smoky, orchestral adventures that derail brilliantly

(Bella Union)

‘I’m as lucky as the moon, on a starry night in June,” sings Sundfør on her album’s acoustic opener. It’s a misleadingly cutesy start. After 2015’s disco-infused prog record Ten Love Songs, the Norwegian songwriter and producer is having her Biophilia moment. Inspired by travels around varied political and social landscapes, from North Korea to the Amazon rainforest, there are trickling water sounds, wiry bleeps and animal peeps throughout. Sundfør is startlingly back-to-basics at times – there are even schmaltzy ballad tones – but frequently her straightforward songs derail brilliantly.

Related: Susanne Sundfør: ‘Making Ten Love Songs made me feel naked, without skin’

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