On the Floor – Jenny Hval at Sacred Bones 10 Year Anniversary

Growing up in what she calls the “Norwegian Bible Belt,” absorbing what she can grasp of the wider world from her teenage years spent on the Internet, Jenny Hval has long been a dreamer of new possibilities. With five solo and collaborative albums to date (after playing in bands in her youth), the most recent of which being 2015’s critically lauded *Apocalypse, Girl*, Hval has used her music in order to grow up in public through sound. Her sense of self – as a woman, an artist, a fragile yet powerful human being living on a fragile yet powerful Earth – is a theme which envelops her music, and has seen her gain international acclaim for her lyricism, sonic experimentalism and singular stage presence.