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Jun 2, 2015The world it creates is in many ways richer, more affecting and bolder than the ones that came before.
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Jun 11, 2015The intimate collection of low-key art pop is gloriously weird and deeply human.
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Jun 10, 2015Hval continues to cleverly connect, and explicitly comment on, matters of sex and politics on her third album.
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Jun 8, 2015With Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug producing, Hval walks a tightrope over melodic, sometimes lush pop music surrounded by dissonance straight out of a horror film.
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Jun 8, 2015Apocalypse, Girl is the thrilling sound of an artist expressing herself without the slightest hint of self-censorship. It’s one of the year’s most individual and original albums.
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Jun 8, 2015Both her songs and her subject matter hold back from shocking the listener by virtue of their content, and yet they make a startling impact--creating a headspace that leads to nowhere in the same moment that it paves the way to salvation.
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Jun 8, 2015You may squirm at times, but it is almost impossible to look away.
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Jun 8, 2015Apocalypse, Girl is at once plaintive, savagely ironic and disconcertingly funny.
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The WireJun 5, 2015Out of a dangerous, pitfall-laden area of song, she makes a variety of riches. [Jun 2015, p.48]
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Jun 5, 2015Compared to 2013's Innocence Is Kinky, Apocalypse, Girl is less noisy and more thematically united.
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Jun 4, 2015The album wrestles with many of the same ideas [as 2013's Innocence Is Kinky], set against an erotic sonic futurescape of spoken word, warped choirs, sci-fi electronics and her typically pillow-soft vocals.... It’s provocative, but these are ideas rarely heard in pop, which makes it all the more compelling.
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Jun 2, 2015This album deserves the attention of a penetrative PhD dissertation. [Apr-May 2015, p.83]
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UncutJun 2, 2015Despite the odd moment when you're not sure quite what she's on about, she still stabs like a stiletto. [Jul 2015, p.77]
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Jun 9, 2015Like all of her best work, it finds new ways to provoke, and new parts of your brain to light up.
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Jun 8, 2015Apocalypse, girl is an understated mesh of free jazz and artful improvisation, guiding us out of the nightmare capitalism has dreamed for us and into sexual liberation and individual rebirth.
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Jun 12, 2015Apocalypse, girl is a shift toward orchestral pop after the noisy rock of 2013's Innocence Is Kinky, but Hval loses none of her avant-garde inclinations in the process.
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Jun 8, 2015The tracks on Apocalypse, girl flow into one another like smooth, glassy water, and the collaborations, with improv cellist Okkyung Lee, harpist Rhodri Davis and Swans' Thor Harris, add texture.
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Jun 5, 2015You have to turn Girl up loud to hear the 'meshes of voice' that make this a more complex album than on first impression.
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Jun 2, 2015Serene on the surface, but disturbed deep down.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 34 out of 41
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Mixed: 4 out of 41
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Negative: 3 out of 41
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