Jenny Hval

• Iris Silver Mist [4AD, 2025] A−

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Iris Silver Mist [4AD, 2025]
Her tempos both delicate and deliberate, her sonics spare whether acoustic or electronic, her soprano simultaneously somber and fluting, this Norwegian journalist-novelist turned singer-songwriter is only 44, a little young you could say to be obsessed with mortality. Post-Covid, however, all such cavils are null and void, especially given the song that tracks the fatal illness of her mother or someone like her. The music is quiet and slow. But because it's philosophical without shame, it definitely doesn't aim for the background. And it firmly suggests that you stop smoking. A−