Ten Love Songs is the fourth studio album by Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør, released on 16 February 2015 by Warner Music Norway.

This was also the first time she was involved in all aspects of producing an album, including writing, recording, mixing, orchestration, and audio editing, and this huge amount of work as well as the extreme personal themes of the project led her to feel very ill, depressed, and "naked" when production ended in 2014.

While half of Ten Love Songs was self-produced by Sundfør, the album also features collaborations with producers such as Lars Horntveth, Anthony Gonzalez, Jon Bates and Röyksopp.

In an interview on 26 March 2013, Sundfør revealed she was working on her fourth studio album;[5] she stated that the project was going to be more "repetitive" and less "shifting" and "busy" than her previous record The Silicone Veil (2012).

[6] Writing of Sundfør's fourth album began shortly after the release of The Silicone Veil,[7] her first plan being to make a "universe" out of two songs she wrote before: "Accelerate" and "Trust Me".

[12] While she wrote personal lyrics that were "heavy" to her when creating her previous albums, Ten Love Songs was where she went "too far" with what she was writing to the point where it "change[d] her mind".

[17] The tone of the artwork for Ten Love Songs, as well as its singles, done by artist Grady McFerrin also did not match that of the actual music on the album, which Sundfør said it "brought an interesting element to the record" by creating another "world or dimension" for it.

[19] Ten Love Songs features production work from Lars Horntveth, Anthony Gonzalez of French band M83, American Big Black Delta leader Jon Bates and Norwegian duo Röyksopp.

"[19] Jørgen Træen mixed Ten Love Songs at Duper Studio in Bergen and was also responsible for a majority of the "mysterious sound effects" on the record, Sundfør's favorite being insects crawling out of an opening door that creaks.

"[22] Journalist Doron Davidson-Vidavski compared these surprising elements, which are sudden shifts of tempo and volume, to those of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining (1977).

[23] Davidson-Vidavski categorized Ten Love Songs as a combination of the album Ceremony (2013) by Anna von Hausswolff and the Body Talk trilogy (Pt.

[23] Chi Ming Lai of Electricity Club described the construction of the tracks as a "bizarre musical jigsaw puzzle", "a fascinating experience that continually asks the question: whats next?.

"[16] musicOMH reviewer John Murphy wrote that Ten Love Songs is "not an easy listen", labeling it as "pop music beamed in from another planet, with an astonishing quota of ideas.

[14] A critic for God is in the TV wrote that the style of the songs range from ABBA-esque ballads like "Darlings" and "Trust Me" to melancholy electronic dance numbers such as "Delirious" and "Slowly", that sound like more menacing versions of the works of Annie or Robyn.

[15] The 405 reviewer Jennifer Jonson was mixed towards the track, criticizing its use of overused pop song breakup tropes in the lyrics with lines such as "We wanted to believe that love/could lift us to the skies and above" and, "We thought love could change our names/and free us from earthly chains.

"[15] As he explained, "there’s a ridiculously catchy chorus that buries its way into your brain almost instantly, but there’s also a moment where you feel like you’ve accidentally broken into a particularly spooky abandoned church and you could be trapped in there forever.

"[15] Opening with influences of what Ming Lai described the "spiritual longing" of the works of Depeche Mode,[16] there are menacing, sober-sounding synthesizer arrangements as the song goes into a "rumbling rhythmic aggression" that are performed by a surrealist combination live and electronic drums.

[16] It features choir voice layers, "pulsing" electronic sounds and what Stein Østbø of Verdens Gang described as a "hypnotic" polyphony synthesizer solo inspired by the works of British rock band Queen.

[27] "Fade Away" was another track to garner comparison to "Dancing On My Own" from a journalist, this time James Hall of The Daily Telegraph who wrote that it borrowed its mid-tempo, "throbbing" synth bass, and "joyously upbeat and heartbreakingly sad" vibe from Robyn's song.

[26] "Silencer" starts with a scarce feel as Sundfør sings, "Here I stand, with a gun in my hand, waiting for the water to come", before a harp and an arrangement of chamber strings enter the track.

[16] Jonson compared the beginning of the song to the Radiohead album Hail to the Thief (2003) due to its "haunting" electronic textures and Sundfor's high-pitched vocals.

[16] It then it turns into a thundering four-on-the-floor dance song that includes space-like synthesizer staccatos, a trance-style drop and sound effects of guns and war fields.

[9] Thus, the piano ballad served as the final half of the track and Sundfør arranged strings for the song while in New York to add a Philip Glass element to it.

[16] The spy film-esque song "Delirious" follows the viewpoint from a femme fatale[28] about how love is really a fight someone doesn't want to have, as Sundfør sings in a vibrato, "I'm not the one holding the gun.

"[16] The song begins with an intro in the style of "The Electrician" by pop group The Walker Brothers, before string sections, gun-like percussion sounds, and harsh electronic instruments enter the track.

[29] As Ming Lai described the meaning of the song, "it is said that only insects will survive a nuclear holocaust, so this is a stark consequential reminder of what could happen in a world without love.

[29] Murphy called Ten Love Songs "enormously creative", "endlessly surprising", and "what Lana Del Rey could be if she stopped moping about bad boys and wore something other than that damned red dress".

[15] Ming Lai praised Ten Love Songs for its successful combination of experimental avant-garde and accessible pop music, calling it an "artistically accomplished albums that grows and gets better with each listen".

[14] Ten Love Songs landed on numerous year-end lists by publications such as Drowned in Sound,[50] The Guardian,[51] and Rolling Stone,[25] and it ranked number 72 on The Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll.

[52] For her work on Ten Love Songs, Sundfør won three 2015 Norwegian Grammy Awards: Best Album of the Year, Best Pop Artist, and Best Music Producer.