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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra

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The cult Norwegian duo's third album of alt-pop and genre-bending tracks

ADM rating[?]

6.0

Label
Rune Grammofon
UK Release date
01/09/2009
  1. 9.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    This is truly awe-inspiring music, provoking deep thoughts and sublime feelings.
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    The breathy female vocals and the lounge-bar backing are used to great effect on songs such as Depeche Mode’s Master and Servant and Talking Heads’ Road to Nowhere
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  3. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There is something in these songs which suggests their true talent may yet turn out to lie in their own material, particularly when they delicately ornament their sparse arrangements with well-placed suggestions of electronica
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  4. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    Between the baffling art-vocals and the occasional swell of powerful, alienating electronic effects, there’s a fully realised vision here. Don’t look too deep into it, though – some demons there.
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

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  6. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    A folksy take on God Save the Queen is audacious even by their standards. Purists will balk and cry blasphemy; the rest of us will appreciate the craft behind these covers
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  7. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    French producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux have spun out their quirky cover-versions project into a career that has outlasted that of some of the bands they've covered
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  8. 5.0 |   The Observer

    Fresh torture for rock purists perhaps, but there's little in the French collective's latest makeover of canonical hits to get worked up about
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  9. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    God Save the Queen and Road to Nowhere are given the bluegrass treatment. It’s stupefyingly dull, self-satisfied and pointless. Tinkered with? Evolving? Who cares? Enough now
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  10. 4.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Take a dozen new wave classics, and play them very quietly. So quietly that, once or twice, you can almost hear the sound of a barrel being scraped
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