Jenny Hval announces new album, shares “Year of Love”

thefader.com:

Jenny Hval is a notoriously complex, cryptic songwriter, but she says her forthcoming album, Classic Objects, is an attempt to "write simple stories." Announced today and due out March 11, the record will be her 10th solo studio album (including her first two, which she made under the name Rockettothesky) and her first with 4AD.

Along with the news, she shared the album's second single, "Year of Love," which comes with a trippy video treatment. Doubling down on her claim of straightforwardness, Hval is calling Classic Objects a pop album, pledging that each track will have a verse-chorus structure.

So far, she's made good on that promise: Both "Year of Love" and the November 2021 single "Jupiter" are unmistakably hers, but where her previous albums generally followed meandering yet through-composed trains of thought, she's molded her peculiar style into discrete sound packages here, each with its own function.

Read Next: 10 songs you need in your life this week Based on a marriage proposal that unfolded in front of Hval while she performed, "Year of Love" deals with the confusion and ambivalence she felt in that moment. "For me, this experience was very troubling,” she says. “It confronted me with the fact that I am also married.