"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:
Fri. March 28 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
Sat. March 29-Sun. March 30 - Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
Tues. April 1 - Iowa City, IA @ Mission Creek Festival
Wed. April 2 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway *
Thurs. April 3 - Kansas, City, MO @ TBD *
Fri. April 4 - Omaha, NE @ Barley St. Tavern *
Sat. April 5 - Denver, CO @ Moe's *
Mon. April 7 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Western *
Tues. April 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Church *
Wed. April 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel *
Thurs. April 10 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place *
Sat. April 12 - Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar *
Sun. April 13 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza *
Mon. April 14 - Vancouver, BC @ TBD *
Thurs. April 17 - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club *
Fri. April 18 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Wed. May 14 - Washington, DC - Black Cat %
Thurs. May 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer %
Sat. May 17 - Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub %
Sun. May 18 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom %
Mon. May 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg %
Thurs. May 22 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy 2 %
Fri. May 23 - Newcastle, UK @ Hoults Yard %
Sat. May 24 - Glasgow, UK @ The Arches %
Sun. May 25 - Aberdeen, UK @ The Lemon Tree %
Tues. May 27 - London, UK @ Brixton Electric %
Wed. May 28 - Bristol, UK @ Trinity Community Arts %
Thurs. May 29 - Reading, UK @ Sub89 %
Sat. May 31 - Birmingham, UK @ Supersonic Festival
Sun. June 1 - Leeds, UK @ Cockpit %
Mon. June 2 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2 %
*w/ Mark McGuire
% w/ Swans
This spring, Norway's Jenny Hval returns to the US for tours with both the legendarySwans and the future legend Mark McGuire. 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. Jenny (vocals, synth) and her band -- Håvard Volden (electric guitars, synth, electronics) and Kyrre Laastad (drums, synth) --- have proven to put on an arresting performance that will be a perfect accompaniment to Jenny's confident presentation on record.
Watch Jenny Hval's Yours Truly Perfomance of "Why This and Not That?" -http://yourstru.ly/videos/2013/12/17/jenny-hval/
"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 -
The Guardian interview - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/18/singer-jenny-hval
Innocence Is Kinky purchase link - http://bit.ly/12rhoSV
Jenny Hval Online:
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