Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl track liSting: 1 Kingsize (2:27) 2 Take Care of Yourself (3:04) 3 That Battle Is Over (4:38) 4 White Underground (2:22) 5 Heaven (4:55) 6 Why This? (3:40) 7 Some Days (0:44) 8 Sabbath (3:49) 9 Angels and Anaemia (3:30) 10 Holy Land (10:02) key inFormation / Selling PointS: Hometown / Key Markets: • Oslo, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland Selling Points / Key Press: • The new album by the Norwegian avant-garde musician • Supporting St. Vincent and Perfume Genius on tour in North America in March 2015 • Has toured previously with Swans • Meshes of Voice, Hval’s 2014 collaboration with Susanna, Think big, girl, like a king, think kingsize. Jenny Hval’s new record opens with a was acclaimed by Pitchfork, The Guardian and more quote from the Danish poet Mette Moestrup, and continues towards the abyss. • Previous solo record Innocence Is Kinky earned accolades Apocalypse, girl is a hallucinatory narrative that exists somewhere between fiction from Pitchfork, TIME, Stereogum and many more and reality, a post-op fever dream, a colorful timelapse of death and rebirth, •“Innocence Is Kinky bristles with provocations: Hval’s close-ups of impossible bodies — all told through the language of transgressive lyrics roll around gleefully in tangles of body, mind, pop music. sexuality, gender. the music on Innocence Is Kinky is beckoning and beautiful, one that takes full advantage When Norwegian noise legend Lasse Marhaug interviewed Jenny Hval for his of Hval’s striking voice.”” – Pitchfork fanzine in early 2014, they started talking about movies, and the conversation was so interesting that she asked him to produce her next record. It turned out RiYL: Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush, St. Vincent that talking about film was a great jumping off point for album production. Hval’s songs slowly expanded from solo computer loops and vocal edits to con- catalog #: SBR-134 cd tributions from bandmates Håvard Volden and Kyrre Laastad, before finally genre: Alternative exploding into collaborations with Øystein Moen (Jaga Jazzist/Puma), Thor releaSe date: 6-9-2015 Harris (Swans), improv cellist Okkyung Lee and harpist Rhodri Davis. All of available FormatS: cd, lP these musicians have two things in common: they are fierce players with a great UPc-cd: 616892268949 lP ear for intimacy, and they hear music in the closing of a suitcase as much as in a UPc-lP: 616892268840 beautiful melody. exPort reStrictionS: World excl. Norway vinyl iS not retUrnable And so Apocalypse, girl is a very intimate, very visual beast. It dreams of an old box lot: cd 30 / lP 30 science fiction movie where gospel choir girls are punks and run the world with auto-erotic impulses. It’s a gentle hum from a doomsday cult, a soft desire for label contact: collective devotion, an ode to the close-up and magnified, unruly desires. Sacred Bones Records 67 West St., Suite 221 Jenny Hval has developed her own take on intimate sound since the release of Brooklyn, NY 11222 her debut album in 2006. Her work, which includes 2013’s critically celebrated [email protected] Innocence Is Kinky (Rune Grammofon), has gradually incorporated books, sound www.sacredbonesrecords.com installations and collaborations with poets and visual artists. For Hval, language is central, always torn between the vulnerable, the explosive and total humilia- tion. Exclusively distributed by SC Distribution / Phone: (812) 335-1527 / Fax: (888) 678-0167 US domeStic SaleS contact: Shelly Westerhausen [email protected] / international SaleS contact: Kraegan Graves [email protected].