On 05.10.2012, the Susanne Sundfør album “The Silicone Veil” was also released in Germany.
Spiegel Online: „… she weaves mythological and fairy-tale moments with matters of the heart, but also appreciates Kraftwerk and Fever Ray, as the magnificent "Diamonds" demonstrates.” (7.6 points)
The Süddeutsche Zeitung and Rolling Stone compared her to Kate Bush, while Intro called her “the Norwegian answer to Tori Amos, Console, and Wagner.”
With her new album “The Silicone Veil,” 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” deals with 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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Susanne Sundfør “Silicone Veil” (Official Video)
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