Working within the familiar and often constricting singer-songwriter genre, Jenny Hval juxtaposes her subtle arrangements with occasionally unflinching sexual imagery. Her direct and sometimes aggressive lyrics seem somewhat out of place within the confines of the garage rock, sound collage, and torch-song inspired aesthetics that can be found on her latest record Innocence is Kinky, which is due out April 19th via Rune Grammofon. You can hear her latest single, the deceptively calm “Mephisto in the Water,” below.
