Ten Love Songs

Ten Love Songs
Studio album by Susanne Sundfør
Released	16 February 2015 (2015-02-16)
Genre	Art pop electropop baroque pop synthpop dance pop
Label	Warner Music Norway
Producer	Susanne Sundfør Lars Horntveth Anthony Gonzalez Jon Bates Röyksopp
Susanne Sundfør chronology
The Silicone Veil (2012) Ten Love Songs (2015)
Singles from Ten Love Songs
"Fade Away" Released: 24 October 2014 (2014-10-24) "Delirious" Released: 12 January 2015 (2015-01-12)

Ten Love Songs is the sixth studio album by Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør. It was released on 16 February 2015.^[1] A European tour will ensue on March 3, 2015. "Fade Away" was the first single released from the album. "Delirious" was released as the second single. For the album Sundfør collaborated with Anthony Gonzalez of M83, Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland of Röyksopp, Lars Horntveth and the Trondheimsolistene Chamber Ensemble. Sundfør described the album as an attempt to make a pop record.^[2]

Themes

Sundfør said in an interview, "When I first started to work on the album, I wanted to make an album about violence, and then, as I was writing the songs, there were violent aspects, but they were usually about love or relationships, how you connect with other people. And in the end, that turned out to be 10 love songs."^[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	89/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Gaffa[5]
Mojo[6]
Music Is[7]
musicOMH [8]
NBHAP[9]
NRK P3[5]
P3 Musikk[10]
PressPlay[11]
Release Music Magazine[12]
Sputnik Music[13]
The 405[14]
The Guardian[15]
The Quietus[6]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Ten Love Songs received an average score of 89, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on six reviews.^[4] Writing for The Guardian, Michael Hann deemed it a "quite brilliant album" and summarised it as "both appealingly direct yet perfectly thought-through".^[15] The reviewer for Sonic Seducer wrote that throughout the album Sundfør's vocals stood out among the arrangements of orchestra and dancefloor style.^[16]

Track listings

All songs written and composed by Susanne Sundfør. 

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer
• ^{^[b]} signifies a co-producer

Charts

References