Artist: Susanne Sundfør
Album: The Silicone Veil
Hailing from Oslo, Norway, singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør’s third studio album paints a vivid soundscape from which visions of foreign snowcapped lands to the far north are easily wrought by the imagination of the listener. Classified as a mixture of baroque pop, electronic, and art pop, Sundfør describes the songs found within The Silicone Veil as being a reflection of “apocalypse, death, love and snow.”
The album was released in Norway on March 23, 2012, and boasts a total of 10 tracks; one of which, titled “Meditations in an Emergency,” is entirely instrumental in nature. Three singles, “White Foxes,” “The Silicone Veil,” and “Among Us,” were also released from the album. Sundfør displays an extensive vocal range – from high warbling pitches to quietly provocative tones – but it is the presence of a deeply entrancing and eclectic array of unique electronic and orchestra generated sounds which makes this sensory experience truly worthwhile.
While the 29 year old Norwegian artist released her fifth studio album Ten Love Songs earlier this year, The Silicone Veil is one album that definitely calls for (repeated) revisiting.