Innocence is Kinky - Jenny Hval
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  • Summary: Produced by John Parish, the Norwegian artist's latest release was influenced by a sound and light installation commissioned in 2011.

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  1. PopMatters
    Jun 6, 2013
    90
    Innocence is Kinky might be a more clear distillation of Hval’s vision, but that’s only because the gaze is fixed so intently from performer to perpetrator.
  2. No Ripcord
    May 24, 2013
    90
    This mind-expanding record will inspire a more inexpressible connection: you will carve your own niche within its deep and absorbing textures, and you will find new things upon every listen.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    May 24, 2013
    90
    It’s in her artwork’s texture that Hval’s voice fascinates.
  4. Exclaim
    May 24, 2013
    80
    Innocence is Kinky is by turns surreal and hyper-real, a Lynch-ian underworld of avant-pop, alt-lit poetry and potent sexuality.
  5. cokemachineglow
    May 30, 2013
    80
    She is expressing something ineffable in a way that is consumable and still interesting: the album as starting point, a work that grows with the listener--the gateway drug to thinking differently.
  6. Q Magazine
    May 24, 2013
    80
    Disturbingly sensual stuff. [Jun 2013, p.99]
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  7. Sputnikmusic
    Aug 2, 2013
    76
    It may be difficult to listen to, and even harder to stomach, but there is great reward in focusing on what happens in this deceptively hushed landscape that Hval has built, because for all its use of soft atmospherics and gentle, eiderdown-laced vocals, the album ultimately betrays the implication of a lifetime of misuse beneath its soothing dulcet tones and restrained palettes.

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