With her new album “The Silicone Veil” (release in Germany: 10.05.12), Susanne Sundfør expands her musical universe. “The Silicone Veil” is the successor to her critically acclaimed platinum album “The Brothel” (2010), which spent 30 weeks in the Norwegian album charts and sold over 40,000 copies.
While “The Brothel” had a rather dark, cold, and closed atmosphere, “The Silicone Veil” is filled with warm and rich melodies woven into multifaceted and complex soundscapes. The lyrics, on the other hand, point in a completely different direction: they deal with despair and the loss of illusions, faith, and hope. They explore our inability to understand the difficulties of our present life and to acknowledge its consequences instead of denying them. Thematically, “The Silicone Veil” addresses the blurred boundaries between one state of existence and another, between life and death, between people, and between us and the Earth. As Sundfør summarizes it herself: “Apocalypse, death, love, and snow.”
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