JENNI HVAL - Innocence Is Kinky

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Artpop/Pop | Heft: Jahrgang 2013, eclipsed Nr. 151 / 6-2013 | VÖ-Jahr: 2013 | Wertung: 6/10 | Label: Rune Grammophon | Autor: BSV


"At night I watch people fucking on my computer." With these words in the first five seconds of her new album "Innocence Is Kinky" Jenni Hval makes it clear that she is revealing intimacies from her privacy again this time. Why not, she has already convinced artistically with this approach with her predecessor "Viscera". With "Innocence Is Kinky", however, she finds it more difficult. Electronic sounds, sometimes subtle, sometimes shrill, alternate with alienated rhythm guitars. A simple bass pulse here, a harmonium there. Jenni Hval usually sings at high altitudes, incorporates chuckling and yodelling. She can sound like Kate Bush, but also like Patti Smith. Their eleven new songs are varied, bursting with extraordinary to strange arrangements, surprising with abrupt sound changes and always creating new moods, but at the same time they too often remain in lamentations or even freeze in lethargy. Even John Parrish's outstanding production (including PJ Harvey) can't change that much.

Top track: Renée Falconetti Of Orléans

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