Jenny Hval has shared another song from her next album Classic Objects. The new one is titled “Freedom,” and Hval made the video with Annie Bielski and Jenny Berger Myhre. Take a look below.
In a press release, Hval shared a statement about “Freedom”:
I don’t know what freedom is. This song doesn’t either. The lyrics are bombastic and silly, as if written by a political folk song generator. Nonetheless the song was needed on my record—I needed something short and sweet after a series of long, layered reflections.
I imagine it being sung in a courtroom or in parliament when the debate gets too heated and everyone needs a break. In this imagined moment, everyone is singing in unison.
This is the only way I can describe Freedom—as a kind of performative moment that breaks up the structure, language and ambivalence of the rest of the record. On its own, it seems weirdly clear and pure. I can’t really defend it. Or perhaps it is myself I can’t defend. The song is necessary. It just reminds me of the fact that I am not.
After releasing “Jupiter” as a single last fall, Hval announced Classic Objects with “Year of Love” in January. The record is her first for 4AD and it’s out on Friday (March 11). She’ll tour Europe and North America through most of the spring.
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