“You rarely hear singer-songwriter albums as aggressive and involved as Innocence is Kinky, the risky new record from Norway’s Jenny Hval. Over the course of 11 songs, she twists through spoken word and garage rock, power electronics and torch singing, static-cling collages and blissful drone. For “Mephisto in the Water”, Hval finds an intersection between it all, initially cooing above a guitar ga”
