Jenny Hval has officially announced she’s coming out with a new album that will be entitled The Practice of Love and will hit the public on September 13 via Sacred Bones. The Norwegian artist’s announcement also comes with the album’s lead single, “Ashes to Ashes.”
Listen to that below.
Hval says:
This all sounds very clichéd, like a standard greeting card expression… But for me, love, and the practice of love, has been deeply tied to the feeling of otherness. Love as a theme in art has been the domain of the canonized, big artists, and I have always seen myself as a minor character, a voice that speaks of other things. But in the last few years I have wanted to take a closer look at the practice of otherness, this fragile performance, and how it can express love, intimacy, empathy and desire. I have wanted to ask bigger, wider, kind of idiotic questions like: What is our job as a member of the human race? Do we have to accept this job, and if we don’t, does the pressure to be normal ever stop?
Pre-order Jenny Hval’s The Practice of Love: http://sacredbonesrecords.com/
The Practice of Love Tracklist:
1. Lions (feat. Vivian Wang)
2. High Alice
3. Accident (feat. Laura Jean)
4. The Practice of Love (feat. Laura Jean and Vivian Wang)
5. Ashes To Ashes
6. Thumbsucker (feat. Félicia Atkinson and Laura Jean)
7. Six Red Cannas (feat. Vivian Wang, Félicia Atkinson and Laura Jean)
8. Ordinary (feat. Vivian Wang and Félicia Atkinson)
The Practice of Love album cover:
The Practice of Love Performances:
Fri. Sept. 20 – Sat. Sept. 21 – Oslo, NO @ Ultimate Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Fri. Sept. 20 – Sat. Sept. 21 – Oslo, NO @ Black Box teater
Sun. Sept. 29 – London, UK @ Milton Court
Tue. Oct. 15 – Frankfurt, DE @ Mousonturm
Wed. Oct. 16 – Frankfurt, DE @ Mousonturm
Wed. Oct. 30 – Paris, FR @ Centre Pompidou
Sat. Nov. 9 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who? Festival
