Jenny Hval

4AD just shared the third set of songs to be featured on their upcoming compilation album Bills & Aches & Blues, which celebrates the label’s 20th anniversary and will be out on April 2. The new song set features Future Islands covering “The Moon Is Blue” by Colourbox, Jenny Hval covering “Sunbathing” by Lush, Dry Cleaning covering “Oblivion” by Grimes, and Bradford Cox covering “Mountain Battles” by The Breeders. Listen to all covers below.

4AD Records is celebrating its 40th anniversary (which was actually last year) with a new album, Bills & Aches & Blues, featuring the label's current roster covering songs from the band's entire roster, old and new. The album's out next week, but 4AD have been sharing full sides of the double album every week leading up to its release.

Ahead of the release of their album Menneskekollektivet, Lost Girls dropped the trippy single “Losing Something.”. The track features Jenny Hval reciting lines from The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed, a collection of poems from the early Eighties created by the computer program Racter. “More than iron/More than lead/More than gold I need electricity,” she sings over Håvard Volden’s swirling loops of percussion.

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Lost Girls—the project of Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden—have announced their debut album, Menneskekollektivet. It will be released digitally March 26 via Smalltown Supersound, with a physical release to follow on April 23. The new album marks the first time Hval and Volden recorded in a studio together in their 10-plus years of collaboration and follows 2018’s Feeling EP. Below, listen to the newly released title track from Menneskekollektivet.

Lost Girls, the project of Jenny Hval and her longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden, released their debut EP, Feelings, in 2018, and now they've announced their debut full-length. Menneskekollektivet, which means "human collective," is due out March 26 via Smalltown Supersound, and it was built largely on improvisation. "We both record before we know what we’re actually doing," Jenny says.

The last time Jenny Hval released an album, it was the characteristically brilliant 2019 collection The Practice Of Love. She’s back with something new, but this time she’s not alone. For over 10 years now, Hval has had an ongoing collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden​ called Lost Girls. Next month, they’re going to release their debut album under the moniker, ​Menneskekollektivet, which means “human collective” in Norwegian.

Perfume Genius’ Set My Heart On Fire Immediately was one of the best albums of 2020. A couple songs from it have already gotten officially-sanctioned remixes, from the likes of Jim-E Stack and Initial Talk, and today Mike Hadreas is announcing a whole full-length album of remixes called Immediately Remixes. It includes reworks by A.G. Cook, Jenny Hval, Westerman, Actress, Danny L Harle, Katie Dey, and more.

A Boy Harsher remix of “Your Body Changes Everything” arrives ahead of the LP’s February 19 release. On the heels of celebrating his spot at the top of nearly everyone’s Best Of 2020 lists, Perfume Genius is announcing a full-length album of Set My Heart on Fire Immediately remixes, featuring contributions from the likes of A.G. Cook, Jim-E Stacks, Planningtorock, Jenny Hval, Westerman, and Katie Dey (who’s coincidentally announced her own remix LP today—which, unfortunately, does not include a contribution from Mike Hadreas).