Aug 21, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Lost Girls—the collaborative project of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden—have announced a new album, Selvutsletter, and shared a new song from it, “With the Other Hand.” More

Jul 17, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Lost Girls—the collaborative project of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden—have returned with a new single, “Ruins,” and announced a fall tour. More

Nov 16, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Jenny Hval has shared a new single, “Buffy. Hval has also shared a live performance video for “Cemetery of Splendour” and “Classic Objects,” two songs from her newest album, Classic Objects. More

Mar 09, 2022 By Laura Studarus

Jenny Hval wasted no time hopping straight into a conversation about the dream like state we enter when performing and creating. More

Mar 07, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Jenny Hval is releasing a new album, Classic Objects, this Friday via 4AD. Now she has shared one more single from it, “Freedom,” via a video for the short song. Hval made the video with Annie Bielski and Jenny Berger Mhyre. More

Jan 21, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were some exciting new album announcements (Hatchie, Daniel Rossen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Jenny Hval) and Beach House put out another five songs from their new album. More

Jan 18, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Jenny Hval has announced the release of a new album, Classic Objects, which will be out on March 11 via 4AD. Hval has also shared a video for a new single from the album, “Year of Love.” More

Nov 09, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Jenny Hval has shared a video for her new single “Jupiter.” It is her first release for 4AD after recently signing with the indie label. Hval has also announced her first North American tour since 2018, which will take place in late spring of 2022. More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Mar 25, 2021 By Joey Arnone

4AD just shared the third set of songs to be featured on their upcoming compilation album Bills & Aches & Blues, which celebrates the label’s 20th anniversary and will be out on April 2. The new song set features Future Islands covering “The Moon Is Blue” by Colourbox, Jenny Hval covering “Sunbathing” by Lush, Dry Cleaning covering “Oblivion” by Grimes, and Bradford Cox covering “Mountain Battles” by The Breeders. More

Mar 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Norwegian duo Lost Girls (the collaboration between Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden) are releasing their debut album, Menneskekollektivet, this Friday via Smalltown Supersound. Now they have shared another song from it, the ominous slow-burner “Losing Something.” More

Feb 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2021. There was finally some good news this week. We landed on Mars! On Thursday NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on the red planet, a tricky engineering feat, to answer David Bowie’s question: “Is there life on Mars?” More

Feb 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lost Girls (the collaboration between Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden) have announced their debut album, Menneskekollektivet, and shared its first single, 12-minute title track “Menneskekollektivet.” More

Apr 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. While more album release dates were pushed back due to COVID-19 and it seems we haven’t reached the peak number of coronavirus cases in America yet, none of that stopped artists from sharing a whole lot of new songs this week. More

Apr 03, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

Jenny Hval has shared a new song, “Bonus Material.” It is the Norwegian experimentalist’s first new song since last September’s full-length The Practice of Love. Hval has also announced some rescheduled tour dates, shows that were postponed due to COVID-19. More

Oct 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval released a new album, The Practice of Love, back in September via Sacred Bones. Now she has announced some new 2020 North American tour dates. More

Sep 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval has released a new album, The Practice of Love, today via Sacred Bones. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Sep 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval is releasing a new album, The Practice of Love, this Friday (September 13) via Sacred Bones. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Accident,” via a strange video for the track. Frequent collaborator Zia Anger directed the video, which features Anger’s own mother. More

Aug 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was a super strong week for new songs. There was lots of debate about how many tracks we should include this week and what would make the list. Hence we ended up with a Top 12, instead of our usual Top 10. There are also a whole lot of honorable mentions. More

Aug 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval is releasing a new album, The Practice of Love, on September 13 via Sacred Bones. Previously she shared its first single, “Ashes to Ashes” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now she has shared another song from the album, “High Alice.” More

Jul 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the July 4th holiday; there really weren’t too many new songs last week. So this week’s edition covers songs from both this week and last week, hence we have 12 choices. More

Jul 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval has announced a new album, The Practice of Love, and shared its first single, “Ashes to Ashes.” More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval released a new EP, The Long Sleep, today via Sacred Bones. Previously she shared its first single, “Spells” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). More

Apr 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The top songs in this week’s Songs of the Week list were readily apparent, it was just a case of working out the order, with the Top 5 switching order several times before being finalized. Many of this week’s new songs are initial singles from albums or EPs also announced this week. More

Apr 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval has announced a new EP, The Long Sleep, and shared its first single, “Spells.” Check out “Spells” below, followed by the EP’s tracklist and cover art, as well as her upcoming tour dates. More

Oct 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian space disco mastermind Lindstrøm (aka Hans-Peter Lindstrøm) is releasing a new album, It’s Alright Between Us As It Is, this Friday (October 20th) via Smalltown Supersound. More

Mar 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kelly Lee Owens is a promising new electronic music artist from London. This Friday (March 24) she is releasing her self-titled debut album via Smalltown Supersound, which you can currently stream here. It More

Jan 26, 2017 By Laura Studarus

Jenny Hval’s Blood Bitch has been nominated for The Phonofile Nordic Music Prize, which honors the best album of the year recorded by an artist from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Denmark. More

Jan 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Norwegian avant-garde musician Jenny Hval released her sixth album, Blood Bitch, last year via Sacred Bones. It was an acclaimed concept album partly about menstruation and featuring a fictional time traveling vampire named Orlando. More

Dec 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Marfa Myths have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down March 9 - 12 in Marfa, Texas and is put together by Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa. Weyes Blood and Perfume Genius will do a collaborative performance together. More

Jun 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

England’s Adult Jazz released a new mini album, Earrings Off!, last month via Tri Angle. Now they have shared a video for “Pumped From Above.” More

Sep 01, 2021 By Jasper Willems

There is a moment during Under the Radar’s Zoom conversation with Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden where the couple (who were in the same room together) unknowingly inhabit the exact same pose together on screen: rolling deep reflecting eyes with the left hand resting on the cheek. It speaks of the fluidity in which the Norwegian duo—who together form the paradigm-shattering project Lost Girls—carry themselves, causing tiny rifts between existence and performance with their presence. More

Oct 31, 2019 By Jordan J. Michael

There is an inspirational, gleaming Queen in every neighborhood. Everywhere we look, art is being made by divine beauty. Turmoil surrounds us, but turn the other direction. More

May 29, 2018 By Bekki Bemrose

2016 marked the year that Norwegian artist Jenny Hval’s talents truly came to a glorious fruition with the scarlet reflections of Blood Bitch. That bold yet beautiful work delved into the uncomfortable taboo of menstruation, and capitalism’s vampiric thirst and its effect on the artist; on first listen The Long Sleep EP is a much gentler prospect. More

Oct 10, 2016 By Billy Hamilton

Part way through Blood Bitch someone asks Jenny Hval “What’s this album about?” She answers: “Vampires… and more things.” It’s a perfect description of the Norwegian’s slant on songwriting. Hval is a pursuer of the sonically extraordinary; an adventurer of jarring soundscapes. More

Jun 05, 2015 By JR Moores

While many musicians are happy to stick a “na-na-na,” a “baby, baby” or any old throwaway rubbish over their thoughtless three-chord ditties, Jenny Hval is determined to push her language just as far as her music. More