![]() She uses the terms “form,” “failure,” and “abstract” a lot, both in-person and on Blood Bitch. In Hval’s mind, every idea she has becomes part of a larger one. And you’re supposed to still feel sympathy because this one man finds this one woman again. ![]() The world ends so that one couple can find their way back together. “ Think of all the disaster movies - I just watched 2012. “I was amazed about how much taboo they could contain without moral compass, how much incest there could be,” she says, noting how unconcerned with righteousness those decades-old films are. Yes, it does touch upon menstruation (women’s flows synch up on “Female Vampire”), but it’s much more focused on the supernatural - vampires and ’70s horror films, to be specific. But Blood Bitch isn’t so much about the obvious. Lately with the singer, everything comes back to the stuff of life and death. One minute, she’s questioning her own existence (“What am I doing? What is this world?”) and decrying social media (“Algorithms will kill us all”), and the next, she’s joking that we should “pour a bucket of blood on a tree.” Hval - who will release her sixth album, Blood Bitch, on September 30 via Sacred Bones - bounces from deep thought to light humor like a frog on a lake of lily pads. “ I wasn’t social enough to pursue that,” she says. ![]() (“What is soft dick rock?” she asks on the sing-spoken “Kingsize,” from her metaphysical 2015 record, Apocalypse, girl.) She’s studied philosophy, art, theater, and film theory, but not filmmaking. Vincent and a tendency to coin new, provocative phrases in her songs. It’s easy to feel nervous in Hval’s presence: On paper, she is rather intimidating, with five records (two of which are credited to her former moniker, Rockettothesky) of expansive, often experimental art-pop filled with unflinching, poetic lyrics dealing with gender and sexuality one Norwegian-language novel (2009’s Perlebryggeriet) tours with other theatrical, body-as-a-canvas performers like Perfume Genius and St. Women watch romantic comedy and eat candy.”) And with that, we’re off and running. (“It was supposed to be this ‘women eat chocolate’ thing. “ I’ve enjoyed the changing image of the vagina and power with just the image of blood,” she says, before telling me about a music video she tried to make featuring a woman eating chocolate in bed and getting her period. She replies without quite addressing that comment, instead trailing off into the first of many soliloquies. Our conversation begins with my pseudo-apology at choosing such an obvious place to meet: a flower garden, to pivot off of Hval’s ongoing musical fascination with the female anatomy. But considering the volume of heady thoughts that the 35-year-old singer-songwriter exudes from moment to moment, some regional disorientation appears less important than how lost we’ve become in conversation.Īnd given her substantial intellect, it’s a relief to see that Hval, who over the past decade has quietly built a reputation for amorphous-yet-accessible arrangements, is both unpretentious and eager to absorb anyone who crosses her path into a long, layered discussion. After winding our way through the arboretum, we appear to have grown sidetracked while talking about, well, everything. and Canada this year) – keep scrolling for more on that.Jenny Hval is lost. It’s a humid Sunday morning in July, and the Norwegian dream-pop explorer has joined me for a long walk through Brooklyn’s Botanic Garden. Of course, alongside the album announcement is the Viva Las Vengeance tour, which will be hitting the UK in 2023 (and the U.S. Indeed, as the singer says, Vengeance was recorded live to tape at a studio in Los Angeles with production partners Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola – a huge change in process to the way Brendon has previously worked. I didn’t realise I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.” Speaking about the new LP as a whole, Brendon reveals that, “Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn't have before. The follow-up to 2018's Pray For The Wicked is due out on August 19 via Fueled By Ramen / DCD2, with the lead single and title-track out today (June 1) alongside a video from High Hopes director Brendan Walter – watch it below. After a couple of weeks of teasing, Panic! At The Disco have launched a massive comeback with new single and album, Viva Las Vengeance.
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