Iris Silver Mist - Pearl/Northern Light Vinyl
New album by the Norwegian singer-songwriter.

Iris Silver Mist - Pearl/Northern Light Vinyl

Jenny Hval

€ 25,95
  • LP
Label
4AD
Expected release
2 May 2025
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Description

Many of the songs on Iris Silver Mist were created as a mixtape, as one continuous flow of ideas. Before the songs were recorded, they were performed like this, as long, shapeshifting pieces, as part of the interdisciplinary piece I want to be a Machine. The album has kept this feeling of one song seeping into the next. Field recordings blur the line between music and the world around it, too. In ‘Heiner Müller’, we hear the sound of the artist singing to herself while walking her dog in the rain. ‘Spirit Mist’ includes the hum of the Oslo subway. “It is about moving,” Jenny says about the album, but she means it in a more symbiotic way. Moving into the sound, as one song turns into the next, as she turns into the music, and her perfume does so, too.

On the album’s first single, ‘To Be a Rose’, Jenny’s words linger somewhere between speech and song. “A rose is a rose is a rose is a cigarette” she sings, speaks, to the beat of a drum machine. The rose grows taller with each chorus as the chords change, to the rhythm of the smoke from her mother’s cigarette dancing through the air. Smoke and flowers intertwine throughout the album, so does the parallel between Jenny and her mother. “I was singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Long inhales and long exhales performed in choreography.” - ‘Iris Silver Mist’ biography by Emma Aars

Tracklist

  • 1.Lay Down
  • 2.To Be A Rose
  • 3.I Want To Start At The Beginning
  • 4.All Night Long
  • 5.Heiner Müller
  • 6.You Died
  • 7.Spirit Mist
  • 8.I Don't Know What Free Is
  • 9.The Artist Is Absent
  • 10.Huffing My Arm
  • 11.The Gift
  • 12.A Ballad
  • 13.I Want The End To Sound Like This

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