Norway-based experimental singer-songwriter Jenny Hval released her fourth solo album, Innocence is Kinky, in 2013. She quickly followed it up with Meshes of Voice, a collaboration with Susanna Wallumrød, in 2014. Seemingly unable to slow down, she's back with yet another solo LP.
The album's called Apocalypse, girl, and a press release calls it "a very intimate, very visual beast," adding, "It dreams of an old science fiction movie where gospel choir girls are punks and run the world with auto-erotic impulses. It's a gentle hum from a doomsday cult, a soft desire for collective devotion, an ode to the close-up and magnified, unruly desires."
In addition to Hval, Apocalypse, girl also features noise legend Lasse Marhaug, Jagga Jazzist's Øystein Moen, Swans' Thor Harris, cellist Okkyung Lee, harpist Rhodri Davis, and Hval's bandmates Håvard Volden and Kyrre Laastad.
Sacred Bones will issue the new album on June 9. Its tracklisting is available below, along with a trailer for the LP.
In addition, Jenny Hval will support St. Vincent and Perfume Genius on tour this spring. All dates are available below.
The album's called Apocalypse, girl, and a press release calls it "a very intimate, very visual beast," adding, "It dreams of an old science fiction movie where gospel choir girls are punks and run the world with auto-erotic impulses. It's a gentle hum from a doomsday cult, a soft desire for collective devotion, an ode to the close-up and magnified, unruly desires."
In addition to Hval, Apocalypse, girl also features noise legend Lasse Marhaug, Jagga Jazzist's Øystein Moen, Swans' Thor Harris, cellist Okkyung Lee, harpist Rhodri Davis, and Hval's bandmates Håvard Volden and Kyrre Laastad.
Sacred Bones will issue the new album on June 9. Its tracklisting is available below, along with a trailer for the LP.
In addition, Jenny Hval will support St. Vincent and Perfume Genius on tour this spring. All dates are available below.
Apocalypse, girl:
1. Kingsize
2. Take Care Of Yourself
3. That Battle Is Over
4. White Underground
5. Heaven
6. Why This_
7. Some Days
8. Sabbath
9. Angels and Anaemia
10. Holy Land
Tour dates:
03/03-04 Toronto, ON - The Danforth Music Hall *
03/05 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall *
03/06 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom *
03/07 Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall *
03/08 Providence, RI - Lupo's *
03/09 Hudson, NY - The Half Moon
03/10 Portland, ME - Space Gallery
03/16 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center %
03/17 Washington, DC - Black Cat %
03/19 New York, NY - Stage 48 %
03/20 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair %
03/21 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre %
03/23 Hamden, CT - The Outer Space %
03/24 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer %
03/25 Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston %
03/27 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum %
06/04-07 Oslo, Norway - Black Box Theater
* with St. Vincent
% with Perfume Genius
1. Kingsize
2. Take Care Of Yourself
3. That Battle Is Over
4. White Underground
5. Heaven
6. Why This_
7. Some Days
8. Sabbath
9. Angels and Anaemia
10. Holy Land
Tour dates:
03/03-04 Toronto, ON - The Danforth Music Hall *
03/05 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall *
03/06 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom *
03/07 Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall *
03/08 Providence, RI - Lupo's *
03/09 Hudson, NY - The Half Moon
03/10 Portland, ME - Space Gallery
03/16 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center %
03/17 Washington, DC - Black Cat %
03/19 New York, NY - Stage 48 %
03/20 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair %
03/21 Providence, RI - Columbus Theatre %
03/23 Hamden, CT - The Outer Space %
03/24 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer %
03/25 Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston %
03/27 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum %
06/04-07 Oslo, Norway - Black Box Theater
* with St. Vincent
% with Perfume Genius
