Innocence is Kinky
by Jenny Hval
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 27
  3. Negative: 2 out of 27
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  1. giodelgado
    Jun 13, 2016
    10
    She's a poet and she makes music, each song seems to be taken from a movie, different from everything else I've listened to. The electronic elements fit the instruments and her sweet voice. A lullaby album? Something like Bjork's Vespertine?
  2. alecvl08
    Oct 24, 2014
    7
    The ideas behind this album are solid, but it isn't executed very well, similarly to Jenny's last album, Viscera. Hval's extremely intimate voice gets hard to listen to after a while. The instrumentals are a little dry, and some of the songs have pacing issues. It's interesting to listen to, however, and there are enough musical moments to make this album good. My favorite track was GiveThe ideas behind this album are solid, but it isn't executed very well, similarly to Jenny's last album, Viscera. Hval's extremely intimate voice gets hard to listen to after a while. The instrumentals are a little dry, and some of the songs have pacing issues. It's interesting to listen to, however, and there are enough musical moments to make this album good. My favorite track was Give Me That Sound, which is the diamond in the rough of this album. It's very bold and creative, and it's awesome, but it's much shorter than the other tracks! If Hval wrote an album with all of the songs as good as that one, it would be 10.… Collapse

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Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Drowned In Sound
    Dec 11, 2013
    80
    Only rarely is one privileged to be carried away by a record so beautifully absorbed with its own vision.
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  2. The Quietus
    Nov 15, 2013
    90
    Innocence Is Kinky is a remarkable album, one which delves beneath the surface and returns with something both seductive and strange.
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  3. 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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