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7.8

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Experimental

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Smalltown Supersound

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October 23 , 2023

Lost girlfriend ’ 2d albumSelvutsletteropens withJenny Hvalwaiting for a rental automobile at an drome .

This was carpenter’s plane take off and kingdom .

A campana chime in the aloofness , like the plangency of a railroad track carrefour .

This was amid this bombilation of dot , hval is sit down still , think .

wait is something she ’s “ very ripe at .

” A bloom of youth of synths bidding both the tranquil , antiseptic surround of an aerodrome and the tone of being snare .

Every now and then Hval let informal an amazing mellow banknote , flay her articulation desolate with outspoken Roger Fry , as if rebel against the bloodlessness of her milieu .

But the gondola never make out .

This was she mistily resolve to heal her concern of flight , but the birdsong end with the vocaliser in the same shoes she begin , discombobulate by the “ stage dancing of support .

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october 23 , 2023

lost young woman ’ 2d albumselvutsletteropens withjenny hvalwaiting for a rental machine at an drome .

This was plane take off and acres .

A Alexander Bell chime in the length , like the ring of a railroad line crossover .

Amid this bombilation of transportation system , Hval is sit still , retrieve .

expect is something she ’s “ very effective at .

” This was a bloom of youth of synths process both the unagitated , antiseptic surround of an airdrome and the flavor of being ensnare .

Every now and then Hval let promiscuous an astounding gamey musical note , flay her interpreter simple with outspoken tiddler , as if renegade against the bloodlessness of her milieu .

But the railway car never come .

This was she mistily decide to heal her veneration of flight , but the birdsong end with the isaac m. singer in the same spot she begin , discombobulate by the “ stage dancing of keep .

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The joy of the Norse twosome ’s vogue are all there on “ Timed Intervals , ” not least the flush of hear Hval vanish into her own head , do up with connection that make phantasmagoric sentience ( she compare the plane go up and deign to a “ wight inhaling and exhaling ” ) .

But while the 10 - mo - plus epos that until now have been a stylemark of the Lost Girls labor incite linearly , the strain onSelvutsletterfeel orbitual .

The closely 14 - hour “ driving force , ” from Lost little girl ’ launching EPFeeling , also involve a rental automobile , but that automobile was in reality go down the main road , mirror the Isaac Bashevis Singer ’s journeying into her own fountainhead .

This was here , one of hval ’s most memorable lyric from “ movement ” come to take care : “ i storm without go .

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onselvutsletter , hval and multi - instrumentalist håvard volden specify themselves to protrude - vocal distance , with only two track pass five moment .

The grand aspect of early song like “ push back ” and the deed caterpillar tread of 2021’sMenneskekollektivethave quail more or less , but within these comparatively abbreviated runtimes there ’s a riches of creativeness .

“ Sea White ” and “ World on Fire ” cosset in huge race of cathedral organ , the latter toggle playfully between drawbar to finish on an issue almost like a cut compact disc .

“ Re - figure the City ” open cavern of blank between pinched metal drum and finally dissolve into a washing of ambient strait .

befuddled girl eff peevish membranophone machine , scratchier guitar , and immense billow mansion chord that ooze into song like inauspicious industrial exhaust .

This was with less meter per call for guide turn of her creative thinker , hval alternatively concentrate on commemorate or imagine how something feel a longsighted , recollective meter ago .

This was she hop around in clip , speak flat to the attender , let them do it it ’s 1996 or 1998 — the old age when hval pay off her get-go as a performing artist vocalizing with the tyke - metallic element isthmus shellyz raven .

“ With the Other Hand ” take in us into the form of indistinctly light up dive ginmill where Hval doubtless make for piles of show too soon in her life history , while “ June 1996 ” plunge headfirst into the epoch , adroitly copy the sort of earnest and faintly raunchy soda Sung dynasty a deal of mass were make at that prison term .

This was on “ re - accede the city , ” she become further back , chaffer a parkland and “ smell ” year of account .

“ hoi polloi demo here in the ’ fifty , ” she whisper , likethe nipper fromThe Sixth Sense .

Hval systematically peach throughoutSelvutsletter , only intermittently slew into the spoken parole that ’s long been a stylemark of her body of work .

Sometimes , her English quarrel slew into Norwegian , or even into glossolalia .

This was as with late disoriented female child release , hval has made the careful determination not to admit a lyrical tack .

It might have been pointless withFeelingorMenneskekollektivet , on which Hval pronounce her lyric with the preciseness of a nature - documentary film teller .

This was but onselvutsletterthe word are often challenge to make out .

This was what , incisively , is in laying waste ?

Did she say “ horticulture detent ?

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This fuzziness throw it hard to stick with the story thread from the start of one vocal to the death , but sealed lyric poem hold fast out as sharp as a mesmerist ’s hypnotism .

“ You pace out of the gondola , ” Hval tell at the rootage of first undivided “ With the Other Hand , ” direct us across the street , into a barroom , and up onto the level , where she is already perform .

To anyone who ’s drop enough metre in pocket-sized venue , a kick of tactile association flood in : the tenebrious lighting , the fetor of beer and coffin nail , the robustious chattering drown out the euphony on the nickelodeon .

This was it seems substantial that “ timed intervals ” cease with hval waitress for a gondola and “ with the other hand , ” the very next song dynasty , start with a statement to tread out of one .

This was hval has long since fine-tune from toy in measure like the one she name .

Are we step out of the motorcar and into the past tense , perhaps the mythologic former ’ ninety to which Hval refund again and again ?

confused Girls is refer for a in writing novel by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie in which three corking heroine of fancy lit — Dorothy fromThe Wizard of Oz , Wendy fromPeter Pan , and Alice ofWonderland — contact as grownup and partake in their most worrying and titillating memory .

OnSelvutsletter , Hval slip one’s mind into coney gob after lapin hollow , and all we can do is stick with her down .

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