The debut LP from the duo Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden is a warm-blooded exploration of the sensuality of the artistic process.
This record evades categorization. It’s a strange beast, like a sphinx: you can’t tell where one animal begins and where the other ends.
The music is merely caught in a state of evolution and, had they not chosen to nail it down to tape when they did, it might have developed differently. What therefore emerges - in Hval's occasionally tentative melodic explorations as much as Volden's instrumental experiments — is an insight into the very process of making an album.
You'll scent strong hints of Arthur Russell's twisted marginal disco within Menneskekollektivet ((The Human Collective"), as Hval's folkish vocals and poetic framing deliciously counterpoint a fusillade of muscular beats and Volden's jabbing guitar.
Menneskekollektivet takes listeners on a journey that is both transcendent and meditative. The experimental qualities allow the album to be many records at once—electronic and poppy in some places, ambient and symphonic in other places, and in places, all of these things simultaneously.
⭐MUST HEAR ALBUM⭐
Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden's latest collaborative project is an ode to the creative process. Menneskekollketivet, which means 'The Human Collective' in Norwegian, transcends boundaries of what we consider to be 'conventional', but in the most infectious way possible. In its most simple form, Menneskekollektivet is a dance record backed by mesmerising synths, washed over with conversational spoken word passages. Hval's poetry is presented more candidly than ever ... read more
apparently this is the year for spoken word vocals, whether it be Florence Shaw or Greep or that other little kid in the children's band, or in this case Jenny Hval. I have found it hard to get into Hval's music but I find this project to be much more accessible than her other work. the interesting layers and textures provided by Hval and Håvard Volden create a visceral electronic soundscape that frames her voice perfectly. the two longer pieces, the title track (12 minutes) and ... read more
The exquisite debut LP by Lost Girls, Norwegian singer-songwriter Jenny Hval's duo with multi-instrumentalist and long-time collaborator Håvard Volden, offers 5 trippy tracks that stretch and dissolve in melancholic meditations barely torn with ethereal noise, heady chants and spoken words, borrowing equally from ambient, techno and krautrock.
~ My homemade cover of the album cover: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcS9cwdMFt0/
some delightfully off-the-wall art pop that expands upon the electronic instrumentation and house music influences of jenny hval's previous projects
Menneskekollektivet - 6,5/10 🤍
Losing Something - 7/10 🤍
Carried by Invisible Bodies - 6/10 🤍
Love, Lovers - 5/10
Real Life - 6/10
1 | Menneskekollektivet 12:10 | 77 |
2 | Losing Something 4:16 | 74 |
3 | Carried by Invisible Bodies 6:15 | 69 |
4 | Love, Lovers 15:30 | 72 |
5 | Real Life 6:03 | 69 |
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