Jenny Hval´s Labor Of Love The art-pop star on `The Practice Of Love` and her heady, experimental reputation
(WorldNews Music)

Over the course of this decade, Jenny Hval has built up a catalog of boundary-pushing, thought-provoking electronic music that’s rightfully earned her consistent acclaim and fascination. Two months ago, she released her latest collection, The Practice Of Love, the culmination of that decade’s worth of work. The immediate impact on first listen was hearing the realization of a Jenny Hval that was ever so slightly poppier, who could write songs that were gorgeous and celestial but also could try her hand at true bangers. It’s an often strikingly beautiful album that lost none of the conceptual heft of her past work, with meditations that, as always, encourage her listeners to...