Blood Bitch
by Jenny Hval
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 35
  3. Negative: 2 out of 35
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  1. All_ButTrU4
    Feb 9, 2021
    10
    This album is the most focused and high concept Jenny has been the duration of her career. Her 'vampire album' explores blood through the female experience kept taboo :periods.
    Through soft quasi-ambient compositions that feel large and fully formed even when under a minute(Ritual Awakening)she tells the tale of a female vampire with a high libido and bloodlust. She as well begins to    This album is the most focused and high concept Jenny has been the duration of her career. Her 'vampire album' explores blood through the female experience kept taboo :periods.
    Through soft quasi-ambient compositions that feel large and fully formed even when under a minute(Ritual Awakening)she tells the tale of a female vampire with a high libido and bloodlust. She as well begins to dissect her own femininity through this character . The unaltered pain of "in the red" turns into pure romantic infatuation into the pop highlight "conceptual romance " which achieve her ambitious atttemp at conventional pop structures but decides to back out creating an ethereal manifesto of pure optimism shrouded in heaviness. The syths are what drive the entire release. Forming an ominous backbone for this genius to weave itself around. This album only flaw,to others atleast not myself, is that firstly it's cohesiveness can sometimes make it feel like one long song since sonic variety isn't it's strong suit and secondly it's best appreciated when comsumed whole in chronological order. Favourites: conceptual romance, in the red,the great undressing, untamed region, female vampire    … Collapse
  2. bickybicky
    Apr 10, 2019
    10
    A deeply personal album exploring some of the most developed and transcendental themes running throughout the entirety of the LP. Remaining true to some of her lo-fi aesthetics of previous works and incorporate dub and rhythmic synths, instrumentation wraps and intertwines to create eerie tales exploring femme, witchy and dark aesthetics.
  3. TobiasJC
    Oct 11, 2016
    5
    I just don't get how some reviewers just ignored such a masterpiece as Innocence is Kinky and are loving this weird mess. This album has a cool concept, but is sooo unfocused instrumentally.
  4. Evic21
    Sep 30, 2016
    9
    This album is her most focused work to date. Not only that, but it is deeply personal, introspective and sometimes, disturbing. But, the glue that hold it all together is Jenny's vocals and the way she massages her words to create a world all her own. Some of the tracks may be difficult to get through, but the end result is a breathtaking journey that makes you question what it is to be human.

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#45 Best Album of 2016

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. The Wire
    Nov 8, 2016
    80
    This wonderful music is most certainly bleeding freely from somewhere deep inside Jenny Hval. [Nov 2016, p.58]
  2. Sputnikmusic
    Oct 19, 2016
    80
    Despite controversial lyrics, unconventional song structures, and a lofty concept, Blood Bitch somehow fits like a defiant glove against all the odds.
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  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Oct 13, 2016
    90
    There are so many ways into Blood Bitch that it’s dizzying: Chris Kraus, Nino Nardini, the synths, the immensely pillowy hooks, black metal, menstrala. The themes run from menstruation to vampires to capitalism to loneliness to pap smears, and any thread you pick can take you to the core. You have been invited in.
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