Jenny Hval announces new album, Iris Silver Mist

Jenny Hval has announced a new album. On May 2, she’ll release Iris Silver Mist via 4AD. Today she’s shared a new song, “To be a rose.” Hear it below.

Hval said of the new song in a statement, “‘To be a rose’ was written as a restless pop structure. It has a chorus, with chords and a melody, but each chorus sounds slightly different, like we are experiencing the melody from different seasons, decades or even different bodies. The clichéd rose metaphor in the song is equally restless. It can change shape into a cigarette, and then evaporate to smoke. My mother and I (two restless humans) are both present in the song: ‘I was singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Long inhales and long exhales performed in choreography.’ If about anything, ‘To be a rose’ is about how one thing becomes another thing, how we all come from somewhere and someone, and how this is stranger and more powerful than we think.”

Iris Silver Mist follows 2022’s Classic Objects. It’s featured on our list of the 50 Best Albums of 2022.

Jenny Hval Iris Silver Mist tracklist:

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

Jenny Hval live dates:

Sat. April 5 – Madrid, ES @ Electrónica en Abril
Wed. May 21- London, UK @  Islington Assembly Hall *
Fri. May 23 – Brussels, BE @ Le Nuits Botanique
Tue. May 27 – Berlin, DE @ Silent Green (Betonhalle) *
Fri. May 30 – Amsterdam, NL @ Muziekgebouw
Thu. June 5 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret *

* w/ Thea Grant