Jenny Hval has introduced her new album, Iris Silver Mist, which takes its title from a perfume made by Maurice Roucel. It arrives Might 2 by way of 4AD, and you’ll hearken to the lead single, “To Be a Rose,” now. The tune’s accompanying music video is comprised of tour footage of the Norwegian artist from 2015 to 2024, all of which was shot and edited by Jenny Berger Myhre. Test that out beneath.
“‘To Be a Rose’ was written as a stressed pop construction,” defined Hval in an announcement. “It has a refrain, with chords and a melody, however every refrain sounds barely totally different, like we’re experiencing the melody from totally different seasons, a long time and even totally different our bodies. The clichéd rose metaphor within the tune is equally stressed. It could change form right into a cigarette, after which evaporate to smoke. My mom and I (two stressed people) are each current within the tune: ‘I used to be singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Lengthy inhales and lengthy exhales carried out in choreography.’ If about something, ‘To Be a Rose’ is about how one factor turns into one other factor, how all of us come from someplace and somebody, and the way that is stranger and extra highly effective than we predict.”
Iris Silver Mist follows 2022’s Classic Objects and spans 13 songs in complete. A number of of these tracks have been shaped and rehearsed in stay settings final 12 months earlier than being recorded, in an effort that Hval described as emphasizing “the bodily and stay parts of music.”
Hval has a handful of tour dates approaching this spring, too. After a live performance in Madrid, Spain, on April 5, the experimental art-pop musician will head to London, Brussels, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Her final present, for now, is ready for June 5 in Oslo, Norway. Discover all of Hval’s upcoming tour dates beneath.
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Iris Silver Mist:
01 Lay Down
02 To Be a Rose
03 I Need to Begin on the Starting
04 All Evening Lengthy
05 Heiner Muller
06 You Died
07 Spirit Mist
08 I Don’t Know What Free Is
09 The Artist Is Absent
10 Huffing My Arm
11 The Present
12 A Ballad
13 I Need the Finish to Sound Like This
Jenny Hval:
04-05 Madrid, Spain – Electronica en Abril
05-21 London, England – Islington Meeting Corridor
05-23 Brussels, Belgium – Le Nuits Botanique
05-27 Berlin, Germany – Silent Inexperienced (Betonhalle)
05-30 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Muziekgebouw
06-05 Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
