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Oct 4, 2017Music for People in Trouble is poetry without being poetry. It is one of the gentlest excursions of art pop to come this year. Susanne Sundfør might have perfected a sound she has been searching for.
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Sep 18, 2017The end product is another outstanding record, executed with fearlessness and grace.
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Sep 7, 2017Music For People in Trouble led Sundfør away from euphoria but, in its own way, also gave her the tools to find herself again in music. Ultimately this directed her down path, through singing in the purest of forms and composing, to finding tenderness in love and matters of the heart.
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Sep 5, 2017She turns experience into art with a painter’s eye and a warrior’s heart, and Music For People In Trouble is a profoundly humanist work: her finest by some distance.
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Sep 5, 2017Music For People In Trouble will perhaps be a surprise for those who came to Sundfør via her last album, but they won’t be disappointed. This is an album full of hidden depths, stark emotion, and most importantly, absolutely beautiful songs.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2017A beautifully unsettling album. [Oct 2017, p.111]
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Aug 24, 2017Another triumph for Sundfør, who delivers complex, maudlin subjects with lightness and majesty.
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MojoAug 24, 2017As striking as her career-defining 2010 album, The Brothel. [Sep 2017, p.92]
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Aug 24, 2017Music for People in Trouble perhaps doesn’t have the crossover appeal that Ten Love Songs had, and its head-on engagement with contemporary struggles will certainly not be for everyone. But for those who are done with escapism, at least for an hour or so, its sustained mood brings rich rewards.
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Aug 24, 2017Music for People in Trouble is rooted in empathy, and even at its most cynical--the woebegone "No One Believes in Love Anymore" comes to mind--the warmth of its core radiates outward.
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Aug 28, 2017Sundfør wishes to pour oil on the choppy waters of a weary world, and the warm clarity of her voice offers beautiful moments of respite.
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UncutAug 24, 2017Sundfor's first for Bella Union suffers from an occasional excess of affectations, her melismatic vocal style an acquired taste. Fortunately, she's best at her most intimate, this sixth collection's dominate quality. [Sep 2017, p.38]
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