“Jenny Hval isn’t the only artist to have used the pandemic as a chance to reassess the creative process. The challenge the Norwegian polymath set herself as she wrote the eight songs on her eighth album was for them to be about “just me”. Whether that’s what she has achieved is open to interpretation: these songs have autobiographical starting points, but Hval’s lyrics are so rich in allusion and ”
“The Norwegian artist presents her most unified mind-body work to date, melody-filled art-pop that deals with the nature of self and the freedom of the unconscious.”
“No matter how titillating or violent, there’s a constant, immense delicacy to Jenny Hval’s work, in both poetry and sound. Classic Objects, the Oslo-born artist’s first release with 4AD, is one of the gentlest releases in her discography so far. There’s a sharp musical contrast to her work with Lost Girls on 2021’s wild, sprawling Menneskekollektivet, or even the pointed trance of 2019’s The Prac”
