Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Norwegian musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album, Iris Silver Mist, out on 2 May, the lead single/video ‘To be a rose’, and a UK/EU tour. Iris Silver Mist is named after a fragrance made by the nose Maurice Roucel for the French perfume house Serge Lutens. It’s described as smelling more like steel than silver. It is cold and prickly, soft and shimmering, like stepping outside on an early, misty morning, your body still warm from sleep. A perfume, with its heart notes and scented accords, shares its language with music. Both travel through air, simultaneously invisible and distinct.

Rather than begin with music, Iris Silver Mist began with the absence of it. As the pandemic led to no live music, the smell of cigarettes, soap, and the sweat from warm stage lights and shared bathrooms was replaced by unphysical, algorithmic listening at home. Suddenly, and for the first time since she was a teenager, Hval found herself growing interested in perfumes. Smelling, reading, collecting, writing—she immersed herself with scent while her music was put on hold. It took her a year to understand what was happening, until she did: she was seeking another way of sensing physical intimacy. Where music had turned into a void, she filled it with fragrance.

TRACKLIST

1. Jenny Hval - Lay down
2. Jenny Hval - To be a rose
3. Jenny Hval - I want to start at the beginning
4. Jenny Hval - All night long
5. Jenny Hval - Heiner Muller
6. Jenny Hval - You died
7. Jenny Hval - Spirit mist
8. Jenny Hval - I don't know what free is
9. Jenny Hval - The artist is absent
10. Jenny Hval - Huffing my arm
11. Jenny Hval - The gift
12. Jenny Hval - A ballad
13. Jenny Hval - I want the end to sound like this



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