"Earliest mention of the Blood Bitch says she was born from an egg like a reptile. There are so many ways into Blood Bitch that it’s dizzying: Chris Kraus, Nino Nardini, the synths, the immensely pillowy hooks, black metal, menstrala.
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Jenny Hval, plays 9/30 in New York, City Six songs into Jenny Hval’s latest album, Blood Bitch, the Norwegian sound auteur is asked by a friend just what exactly the album is about.
“Female Vampire” is as melodic as it is tension filled, it being a story of a “transient, restless” vampire looking for their place in the world.
The album comes out on September 30th on Scared Bones. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.
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This all happens above a percussive punch of drums and sax-like synthetic sounds.
Most complex of all is the mind-smashing “The Plague,” which rolls out anything from a starry wipe of keyboards, to the musician’s intimate Dictaphone recollection of pairing birth control with Rosé, to monstrous grunts, to a wildly juxtaposed jumble of howls and giddy chiptune programming.Blood Bitch is an ambitious and awesomely executed album from Hval, a landmark outing for the experimental artist.
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Hval’s voice flutters hummingbird-like amongst a round of flutes on “Conceptual Romance,” a spiritual sermon that weighs in on heartbreak, sentimentality, “sexual holding patterns” and more. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
The themes run from menstruation to vampires to capitalism to loneliness to pap smears, and any thread you pick can take you to the core.
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Blood Bitch, in both name and tone, does not aim for immaculacy — it aims for impact. “What can I say, I don’t know who I am, but I’m working on it,” she admits on the track, which is followed up by a man’s spoken word section on “Untamed Region” about society constantly being in a state of confusion and uncertainty.Blood Bitch is likewise amorphous with its sonic approach.
'Blood Bitch' by Jenny Hval, album review by Gregory Adams.