{"product_id":"jenny-hval-the-practise-of-love-vinyl-ltd-ed-sand-coloured-tarot-cards","title":"JENNY HVAL - THE PRACTISE OF LOVE VINYL (LTD. ED. 'SAND' COLOURED + TAROT CARDS)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eLIMITED EDITION 'SAND' COLOURED VINYL + 8 TAROT CARD - 1 FOR EACH TRACK ON THE RECORD\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e?Release Date: 13th September 2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Norwegian\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eavant-garde electro artist's seventh and best album yet! Hval fuses the two worlds of her work from the catchy, poppier synth-pop to the abstract and spokenword aspects \u003cspan\u003ein perfect harmony on \u003ci\u003eThe Practise of Love\u003c\/i\u003e and solidifies her incredible and unique sound in the process. Love! \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Fans Of: Julia Holter, Lydia Ainsworth, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Spellling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e?\u003cspan\u003e\"At first listen, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jenny Hval’s seventh full-length album, unspools with an almost deceptive ease. Across eight tracks, filled with arpeggiated synth washes and the kind of lilting beats that might have drifted, loose and unmoored, from some forgotten mid-’90s trance single, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e feels, first and foremost, compellingly humane. Given the horror and viscera of her previous album, 2016’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Bitch, The Practice of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is almost subversive in its gentleness—a deep dive into what it means to grow older, to question one’s relationship to the earth and one’s self, and to hold a magnifying glass over the notion of what intimacy can mean. As Hval describes it, the album charts its own particular geography, a landscape in which multiple voices engage and disperse, and the question of connectedness—or lack thereof—hangs suspended in the architecture of every song. It is,an album about “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eseeing things from above—almost like looking straight down into the ground, all of these vibrant forest landscapes, the type of nature where you might find a porn magazine at a certain place in the woods and everyone would know where it was, but even that would just become rotting paper, eventually melting into the ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrompted by an urge to find a different kind of language to express what she was feeling, the songs on Love unfurl like an interior dialogue involving several voices. Friends and collaborators Vivian Wang, Laura Jean Englert, and Felicia Atkinson surface on various tracks, via contributed vocals or through bits of recorded conversation, which further posits the record itself as a kind of ongoing discourse. “\u003ci\u003eThe last thing I wrote, which was my new book, had quite an angry voice\u003c\/i\u003e,” says Hval, “\u003ci\u003eThe voice of an angry teenager, furious at the hierarchies. Perhaps this album rediscovers that same voice 20 years later. Not so angry anymore, but still feeling apart from the mainstream, trying to find their place and their community. With that voice, I wanted to push my writing practice further, writing something that was multilayered, a community of voices, stories about both myself and others simultaneously, or about someone’s place in the world and within art history at the same time. I wanted to develop this new multi-tracked writing voice and take it to a positive, beautiful pop song place... A place which also sounds like a huge pile of earth that I’m about to bury my coffin in.”\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VENUS VINYL","offers":[{"title":"LTD. ED. 'SAND' COLOURED + TAROT CARDS","offer_id":20856707842110,"sku":"VEV-04838","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6395\/4238\/products\/Jenny_Hval_-_The_Practice_of_Love.jpg?v=1567600300","url":"https:\/\/venusvinyl.com\/products\/jenny-hval-the-practise-of-love-vinyl-ltd-ed-sand-coloured-tarot-cards","provider":"VENUS VINYL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}