Norwegian art-pop musician and novelist Jenny Hval is helping steer 2022 in the right direction with alluring new audio-visual creation Year of Love, out today with the announcement her forthcoming album Classic Objects. Sparked by the artist witnessing a marriage proposal while she was performing live (an experience Hval describes as "very troubling"), the video for Year of Love (co-directed by Hval, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Annie Bielski) treats our eyes to a multicoloured variety of plasticine-like digital textures and a collage of animated embellishments — creating spaces to ponder somewhere between the handcrafted and the virtual.
Described as "a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you," we're looking forward to hearing the entirety of Classic Objects when it launches on 11th March via 4AD...
Tracklisting
- Year Of Love
- American Coffee
- Classic Objects
- Cemetery of Splendour
- Year of Sky
- Jupiter
- Freedom
- The Revolution Will Not Be Owned
