“Anyone can feasibly write, record, and release music, but Jenny Hval is distinct because she should – because she’s compelled to. Such bulky archives (she’s near-enough released an album a year since her 2011 solo debut) suggest that if she didn’t write, record, and release music she would explode. Fellow Lost Girl Hårvard Volden is the same, and Selvutsletter, their second under the Lost Girls mo”
“Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden’s second album together rejects longform epics for pop structures—yet Hval’s songs are more elusive than ever.”
“Norwegian experimentalist Jenny Hval and her husband-guitarist, Håvard Volden, are Lost Girls, named after Alan Moore’s infamously indecorous 90s porno-graphic novel. Although the sexual exploits of Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from Oz and Peter Pan’s Wendy are thankfully absent here, Hval’s thoughts, as ever, centre on creativity, femininity and art. Lost Girls’ debut, Menneskekollektivet (Norweg”
