Iris Silver Mist
by Jenny Hval
- Type: Album
- Released: 2 May 2025
- Label: 4AD
- Country: Norway
- Length: 42:39
- Community rating: 3.6/5 from 14 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Jenny Hval's 'Iris Silver Mist' is an experimental art-pop album that explores themes of memory, isolation, and ephemeral presence, conceptually rooted in her fascination with perfume. The album's sound is built on cinematic synthesizers, ambient field recordings, and varied percussion, creating a fluid and textural backdrop for Hval's dynamic vocal delivery. Arrangements often shift abruptly, blending spoken word, fragmented poetry, and processed singing to reflect the record's focus on transience and transformation.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, spoken-word, ambient, minimal, textured
Tracklist
- Lay down (04:16)
- To be a rose (03:53)
- I want to start at the beginning (02:26)
- All night long (06:01)
- Heiner Muller (00:59)
- You died (03:31)
- Spirit mist (01:53)
- I don't know what free is (04:46)
- The artist is absent (01:23)
- Huffing my arm (01:27)
- The gift (02:37)
- A ballad (03:45)
- I want the end to sound like this (05:42)
Credits
- Jenny Hval - production, recording, vocals, arrangements, keyboards, guitars
- H氓vard Volden - production, recording, guitars, bass, keyboards
- Kyrre Laastad - mixing, recording, percussion on "to be a rose"
- Christian N忙ss - drums, percussion, drum edits
- H氓vard Skaset - recording
- Heba Kadry - mastering
- Lasse Marhaug - cover design
- Charlie Selvig - cover photo, illustration, art direction
- Pauline Naerholm - make-up
- Andr茅s Kl酶vstad - hair