release date: Sep. 10, 2019
format: vinyl / cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Mahler & Bir (aka Christoffer Møller & Lars Skærbæk)
label: Universal - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "En smeltet kaktus i en vestvendt vindueskarm" - 2. "Postkort" - 4. "Romantikerens kile" - 6. "Vekseleren" - 7. "Sort og hvid til evig tid"
4th studio solo album by Søren Huss is like his most recent solo album MidlivsVisen from 2017 produced by the duo Mahler & Bir and it also feature the same team of backing musicians credited as 'Hussband' with Lars Skjærbæk on guitars and backing vocals, Christoffer Møller on piano, keyboards and backing vocals (also credited string arrangements), Morten Jørgensen on bass, and with Jesper Elnegaard on drums and percussion. In between these two regular studio albums, Huss arranged new music to the play "Bertolt Brechts Svendborgdigte" performed by BaggårdTeatret in Svendborg, and Huss himself participated in the play - the songs were released by Huss in vinyl and cd formats as Bertolt Brechts Svendborgdigte (Jun. 2018) by Sorte Plader.
The title of the album hints at the contrasting elements of sullen melancholy and light-hearted temper that appears to follow Huss as fundamental traits - his ability to write about the strongest of emotions whether he emphasises the troublesome sides to life, or he connects to an opposing positive side - as someone who needs to let the steam out of his system.
MidtlivsVisen was his attempt to break with an old discrediting label of only being able to write sullen soft rock tunes, and without much luck. To some extent, he seems to have returned to a more balanced tone that you'll also find on his sophomore solo Oppefra & ned from 2012. For an artist who spent his formative years writing songs in English, it's quite astonishing what type of true poet of solid craftsmanship he has turned out to be. Søren Huss appears as a genuine artist who just keeps releasing albums at a very high quality level, yet he also seems almost destined to writing songs that always connects with the conditions of existence.
Recommended.
[ 👉Gaffa.dk, Soundvenue 5 / 6, 👎Jyllands-Posten 3 / 6 stars ]
