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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Norwegian composer-singer Susanna was written over five years and produced with Juhani Silvola.
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- Record Label: Susannasonata
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Aug 20, 2024Susanna’s voice is a reassuring constant, an effortless, uninflected carrier of melody. She has her diva-ish moments, but mostly lets the notes assemble out of air and fog, coalescing with a purity that seems not quite human. .... Susanna’s earlier works distilled agitated work into timeless, edgeless serenity, but now her arrangements fuel the music with urgency.
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The WireOct 22, 2024Susanna is backed by a quintet of musicians who move in perfect harmony with her slowly uncoiling vocal. Shifting between jazz, orchestral and synthesized sounds, her approach to the time-honoured love song format is a much needed breath of fresh air. [Oct 2024, p.62]
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Record CollectorAug 20, 2024These ruminations on love form what could be described as a grownup concept album, with the Norwegian singer using all her experience and expertise wisely and reassuringly. [Sep 2024, p.133]
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MojoAug 20, 2024Assembling musicians from the electronica, folk and jazz spheres to frame her disquisitions, she has fashioned a disquieting, gripping artefact. [Aug 2024, p.84]
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Aug 23, 2024By probing the heart's most vulnerable places on Meditations on Love, Susanna uncovers new angles on well-worn feelings and her music alike.
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UncutAug 20, 2024Though the more sweeping likes of “Black Heart” evoke the menace and grandeur of Angelo Badalamenti’s scores for David Lynch, there’s an appealing degree of rattle, clatter and noodling elsewhere as Wallumrød and Silvola commune with the spirits of Harry Partch and Charles Mingus. [Oct 2024, p.41]
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Sep 18, 2024The result is a largely pessimistic record that’s bittersweet and, track by track, often plain bitter. Over its 40 minutes, Meditations on Love accumulates a grueling thematic quality leavened only by Susanna’s vocals.