Jenny Hval summed up the pandemic year 2020 in this little sentence: “We were artists without art.” Thrown back to the “I”, as the multidisciplinary artist describes. Necessarily equipped with plenty of time to go on discovery in the music room that is set up in the head. In the course of such forays, the British DJ Gilles Peterson rediscovered important musical stages of his socialization in pop and presented them to his radio audience in “specials”.
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The Norwegian’s album seems to have come about in a similar way, it’s a potpourri of memories, a kind of “greatest hits” collection of forgotten songs and places. Starting with an oddly grizzled reggae called “Year Of Love,” followed by the powerfully swinging pop song “American Coffee,” which, if you disregard the keyboard pads, would have made a formidable singer/songwriter contribution to the 1970s West Coast scene (but with keyboards only, this is a Jenny Hval tune).
With these new tracks, Hval sets her treasure trove in tones, with the fine voice she was given, with allusions in sound and melody. On “Year Of Sky” we hear tribal beats and a church choir, memories of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the Ashram cassettes by Alice Coltrane. Particularly interesting for fans – CLASSIC OBJECTS works as a life-phase pop record, but also for everyone else. The eight tracks beckon with the magic of the melodies, and Hval likened our craving for them to “going into the dark and jumping off cliffs”. She said well.
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