Jenny Hval shares new Paul Simon inspired-single and unveils details of new album
19.01.2022 - 01:32
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Jenny Hval has shared a new single from her new album today (January 18). Listen to ‘Year Of Love’ below.The single follows on from the album’s first single release, ‘Jupiter’. Hval’s new album, ‘Classic Objects’, will be released on March 11. You can pre-order the album here.Speaking about the Paul Simon-inspired new single, Hval said it was inspired by a true story of a marriage proposal that happened in front of her while she was performing.She explained: “For me, this experience was very troubling.
It confronted me with the fact that I am also married. What does that detail from my private life say about me as an artist? ‘Year of Love’ asks, who am I as an artist? Do my private actions betray my work and voice?”The song’s video was directed by Hval, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Annie Bielski.Speaking about the video, which you can watch below, the three said: “A sense of loss and joy intertwines in a world of disconnected rooms. The artist inhabits these rooms. She is frozen in time, space, and mid-vowel. She is aware of her immediate surroundings.
She is aware that there is more beyond what she can see.“A version of her exists in a compressed, compromised, and objectified state. She is sitting in a room, in a house, in a neighbourhood, in the art industry.”Tracklist for ‘Classic Objects’1. ‘Year of Love’2. ‘American Coffee’3. ‘Classic Objects’4. ‘Cemetery of Splendour’5. ‘Year of Sky’6. ‘Jupiter’7. ‘Freedom’8. ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Owned’Hval’s new album was mixed by Heba Kadry and is described in a press release as “a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams,
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