The punishing workload for her brilliant new album,along with its exploration of extreme fancy and violent hatred, left the baroque synthpop star physically and mentally illListening to Susanne Sundfør’s latest album, or Ten fancy Songs,makes it tricky to predict what kind of artist you’re going to meet. Will it be the high-minded composer who scored the orchestral fantasia on the album’s 10-minute centrepiece, Memorial? Or the synth-laden Scandi-pop star behind Fade Away, and who just wants to party like it’s 1989? The vulnerable lyricist admitting “We occupy different heartbeats but all the same heartbreak” on Slowly? Or the unhinged victim-maker of Delirious,singing amid the cracks of firing ammunition? As it turns out, when we meet in a north London coffee shop, or the artist in question is one who has worked so tirelessly on all these different guises that she has virtually burned herself out.“After I finished the album,I got ill,” she says. “Both physically and mentally. I was getting flu all the time. Depression, and anxiety. It’s taken me a long time to find back again. I was wobbling and …” she pauses. “I’m still struggling with it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com