“Jenny Hval doesn’t just sing songs. Rather, she constructs them out of layers of perfectly elongated lyrics that she stretches between guitar chords and keyboard notes. Her provocative music is dissonant and devastating and, at the same time, completely riveting.”
— TIME [7 Scandinavian Bands You Should Listen To Now]
JENNY HVAL TOUR DATES:
Wed. Sep. 25 – Boston, MA @ Café 939
Thu. Sep. 26 – Montreal, QC @ Church of St. John the Evangelist [Pop Montreal]
Fri. Sep. 27 – Toronto, ON @ Rivoli
Sat. Sep. 28 – Champaign, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival
Sun. Sep. 29 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Tue. Oct. 1 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
Wed. Oct. 2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands
Tue. Oct. 15 – Krakow, PL @ Unsound
Fri. Oct. 25 – Tromsø, NO @ Insomnia Festival
Thu. Oct. 31 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica Hudson
Fri. Nov. 1 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Andy Warhol Museum
Tue. Nov. 5 – Washington, DC @ DC9
Wed. Nov. 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
Thu. Nov. 7 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
Fri. Nov. 15 – The Hague, NL @ Crossing Border Festival
Sun. Nov. 17 – Antwerp, BE @ Crossing Border Festival
Next week marks the kick-ff of Norwegian artist Jenny Hval‘s debut North American tour. Recognized as one of “7 Scandinavian Bands You Should Listen To Now” by TIME, Jenny is a multidisciplinary and transgressive artist whose music is obscurely complex, present and provocative. Her new album, Innocence Is Kinky(Rune Grammofon) overflows with intimate detail and surrealistic bodily imagery, weaving experimental pop with injections of mythology, theory and gender politics. For this first tour of North America, Jenny (vocals, synth) and band — Håvard Volden (electric guitars, synth, electronics) and Kyrre Laastad(drums, synth) — will put on an arresting performance that will be a perfect accompaniment to Jenny’s confident presentation on record.
LISTEN TO JENNY HVAL’S “THE COOL, COOL RIVER” (PAUL SIMON COVER) –
“Innocence Is Kinky” video – http://vimeo.com/69222038
“I Called” – http://snd.sc/ZxiBtu
“Mephisto In The Water” – http://snd.sc/Ygvs6n
“The Seer” – http://snd.sc/ZeCwaw
Jazzhouse Session – http://youtu.be/-Rvz_XpHjl4
“Live at Incubate” – http://bit.ly/WDVJhL
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