“Innocence Is Kinky bristles with provocations: Hval’s lyrics roll around gleefully in tangles of body, mind, sexuality, gender. . . the music on Innocence Is Kinky is beckoning and beautiful, one that takes full advantage of Hval’s striking voice.”
— Pitchfork [Overlooked Records, 2013] 

 

“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.

In support of this tour, Jenny is sharing her new and very distinct cover of Paul Simon’s “The Cool Cool River,” which, as Pitchfork describes, “jettisons the original’s disjointed shuffle and turns the already-slightly-uneasy tune into something more skeletal and unnerving.” Listen below, and make sure to check out (or revisit) the “Innocence Is Kinky” video.

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

Pitchfork “Rising” feature – http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9126-jenny-hval/
Innocence Is Kinky purchase link – http://bit.ly/12rhoSV

 

Jenny Hval Online:

www.jennyhval.com

www.facebook.com/jennyhval

www.twitter.com/jennyhval

www.runegrammofon.com

www.pitchperfectpr.com/a_jenny.html

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