RECORD REVIEW: JENNY HVAL (NOR) – THE PRACTICE OF LOVE
On her seventh album The Practice of Love, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval again brings her considerable intellectual weight to proceedings and produces through an exploration of otherness a probing treatise on an emotional state that more often than not conjures up the most emotionally complex of conundrums. She does quizzically and critically both through seeking […]
DAS BODY ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP WITH SUPERBLY STRANGE NEW SINGLE
Photo: Hsiang Hsiang Wang Das Body, the project of Oslo left field electronic pop artist Ellie Linden have released ‘Graceland’, a motorik inspired three minute piece of dark pop brilliance. Linden has stated that the track is ‘more a feeling than a song’ and that feeling is one of confusion and uncertainty, musically represented in […]
JENNY HVAL EXPLORES SUBCONSCIOUS MEANING ON THE GREAT SLEEP
In case you missed the news, later next month seminal Oslo artist Jenny Hval will release a new EP titled The Great Sleep. It follows up two brilliant albums Blood Bitch and Apocalypse Girl, both of which featured highly in our end of year lists across 2016 and 2015. The four tracks here are based […]
WAUWATOSA DROP IDIOSYNCRATIC NEW SINGLE
Norwegian collective Wauwatosa, centring on songwriting producers Sigurd Ytre-Arne and Martin Langerød have released a new single ‘Snakes’. The enduring dual purposes inherent in Broen vocalist Marianna Sangita Røe’s delivery is surrounded by enveloping dreamy electronics and carefully inserted samples, both elements beautifully juxtaposed up against a stilted yet hypnotic off kilter beat. Sangita Røe […]
SASSY 009 ASK DO YOU MIND?
Oslo DIY electronic pop trio Sassy 009 are set to release their debut EP Do Your Mind this Friday. Their latest single is the gorgeously buoyant ‘Are You Leaving’ which with its bouncy luminescence seems almost the polar opposite on first spin to the icy yet affecting low end dominated debut single ‘Pretty Baby’ released back […]