Hval is a strange wonder. One of those who inhabits her own little universe. Tender and spooky might be how you would describe the cover and there is a sense of those feelings when listening to this music. The dark…
Album | Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
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Singles Round-up | Wild Beasts, Jenny Hval, Pascal Pinon, Roisin Murphy, Dodgy, INGA
Wild Beasts – Get My Bang Wild Beasts are back and sounding sexier than ever before. This lead single from upcoming fifth long player Boy King seems a substantial shift in sound. It starts with a confrontational synth that sounds…
Festivals | The Great Escape 2013 – folk odyssey
We parachute into Brighton on Thursday evening, landing in the middle of the Komedia Studio bar for our favourite avant-garde Norwegian, Jenny Hval. She wows us with her utterly unique brand of experimental, part-spoken-word, musical musings on bodies, cities and…
Festivals | The Great Escape – Preview
The British summer may be getting off to a non-existent start but summery things are happening – English weather be damned – starting with one of our favourite festivals of the year, The Great Escape. Champion of the little guy,…
#66 Jenny Hval – Blood Flight
Stand-out track from Hval’s 2011 album, Viscera, ‘Blood Flight’ is a pulsing, menacing meditation on the body and its senses. Throughout, the vocal alternates between an anguished spoken word tone and freewheeling singing voice, building to a neurotic climax two-thirds…
Album | Jenny Hval – Innocence is Kinky
With 2011 album, Viscera, Jenny Hval achieved a surprising hit, garnering generally favourable – if slightly perplexed – reviews, and a spot in Uncut’s ‘Top 50 Albums Of 2011’. ‘Surprising’(particularly for boys club, Uncut) because Viscera was an experimental, part-spoken…
Interview | Talk About Body – FFS meets Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval is a woman of radical contrasts and disconcerting juxtapositions. Physically small, delicate and bird-like, her vocal suggests a much bigger set of lungs while her music explores the relationship between the organic and the man-made. Tonight, after a…