(2016) Susanna - Triangle
Review: Susanna’s first solo album since 2012, and her eleventh album in total, is a mastodont of a singer/ songwriter release. Near 70 minutes of intensely expressive, deeply felt and spiritually probing lyrics, presented and performed in layers of voice, electronics, effects and programming together with instruments as piano, violin and tuba. The artist known for personal interpretations of songs by Joy Division, Leonard Cohen and AC/DC among others but also her strong originals , has dissected her own musical expression, collaborations and projects, and put the pieces together again creating a unique and diverse world for her songs. Triangle is composed, arranged, played, recorded and produced by Susanna. Musicians from Norwegian bands like Supersilent, Broen, Moskus, Splashgirl and Sudan Dudan participated alongside americans Alison Chesley (Helen Money) and Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang).
Triangle is billed as “soul music for lost souls” made from layers of voice, electronics, piano, violin and tuba. Re-examining her relationship with spirituality and superstition, the album finds her in “intimate, confessional mode,” the press release notes, “confront[ing] existential darkness head-on” and “filled with magical omens, apocalyptic fires, black holes and floodwaters that constantly threaten oblivion.”
On the terrifying ‘This / Phenomena’ it’s distorted into a digital mush, while on ‘We Don’t Belong’ it’s multitracked to a lush and enveloping chorus. Muted electro track ‘Hole’ features Anja Lauvdal and Heida Mobeck from rising art pop group Broen besides Skrap, Skadedyr and Moskus – not since Prince in the mid-80s has an existential religious crisis been so beautifully expressed with the tools of electronic pop.
Tracklist: 01 - Holy - Sacred.flac
02 - We Don't Belong.flac
03 - Texture Within.flac
04 - Fear And Terror.flac
05 - Before The Altar.flac
06 - Hole.flac
07 - Shepherd.flac
08 - Under Water.flac
09 - This - Phenomena.flac
10 - For My Sins.flac
11 - Burning Sea.flac
12 - In The Need Of A Shepherd.flac
13 - Born Again.flac
14 - Triangle.flac
15 - Pyramid.flac
16 - Ebb And Flow.flac
17 - Decomposing.flac
18 - The Fire.flac
19 - Sacred Revolution.flac
20 - Purple.flac
21 - Death Hanging.flac
22 - In My Blood.flac
Summary: Country: USA
Genre: alternative folk, chamber pop
Media Report: Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 403-852 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |