Jenny O. - Spectra - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 , the long-awaited third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter and former Rilo Kiley front woman. THE VOYAGER is Lewis's most deeply personal album to date, documenting her struggle to cope following the death of her estranged father in 2010 and the subsequent break-up of Rilo Kiley. The album's rootsy, golden glow comes courtesy of Lewis and the artists she chose to produce various tracks, including Ryan Adams (who, alongside Mike Viola, produced all but three of the tracks), Beck, and Lewis' longtime collaborator Johnathan Rice. THE VOYAGER finds the always relatable songwriter at her sharp-witted best, singing about her recent experiences with honesty and incisiveness. Album Tracks 1. Head Underwater 2. She's Not Me 3. Just One of the Guys 4. Slippery Slopes 5. Late Bloomer 6. You Can't Outrun 'Em 7. The New You 8. Aloha & the Three Johns 9. Love U Forever 10. The Voyager

At first listen, The Practice of Love, 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, The Practice of Love feels, first and foremost, compellingly humane. Given the horror and viscera of her previous album, 2016's Blood B*tch, The Practice of Love is almost subversive in it's 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 it's 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 Inchseeing 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.Inch Prompted 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. InchThe last thing I wrote, which was my new book, had quite an angry voice,Inch says Hval, InchThe voice of an angry teenager, furious at the hierarchies. Perhaps this album rediscovers that same voice 20 years later. Not so ang

JENNY HVAL / CLASSIC OBJECTS - Jenny Hval is an Oslo-based musician, composer and writer. Multidisciplinary and transgressive are words often employed to describe her art, but Jenny Hval'spolyphonic artistry is in fact seamlessly interwoven between musical, literary, visual and performative modes of expression. She has released several solo albums and novels, including 2018's Paradise Rotand 2020's Girls Against God, both published via Verso Books. Album Tracks 1. Year of Love 2. American Coffee 3. Classic Objects 4. Cemetery of Splendour 1. Year of Sky 2. Jupiter 3. Freedom 4. The Revolution Will Not Be Owned