Jenny Hval has announced a new album. It’s called The Practice of Love and it’s out September 13 via Sacred Bones. The album features collaborations with Vivian Wang, Félicia Atkinson, and Laura Jean Englert. Listen to “Ashes to Ashes” below.

“This all sounds very clichéd, like a standard greeting card expression,” Hval said in a statement, “But for me, love, and the practice of love, has been deeply tied to the feeling of otherness. Love as a theme in art has been the domain of the canonized, big artists, and I have always seen myself as a minor character, a voice that speaks of other things. But in the last few years I have wanted to take a closer look at the practice of otherness, this fragile performance, and how it can express love, intimacy, empathy and desire. I have wanted to ask bigger, wider, kind of idiotic questions like: What is our job as a member of the human race? Do we have to accept this job, and if we don’t, does the pressure to be normal ever stop?”

The new album follows her 2018 EP The Long Sleep and her 2016 album Blood Bitch. Read Pitchfork’s review “Jenny Hval’s Debut Novel, Paradise Rot, Is a Stunning Slice of Fermented Life” on the Pitch.

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