MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Jenny Hval Milton Court Concert Hall, London
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SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
A FAR cry from her last horror-flick and menstruation-inspired 2016 album Blood Bitch, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval’s latest release The Practice Of Love is a poetic homage to all things amour through the prism of 1990s trance music.
With this concept in mind, entering the intimate Milton Court to find Hval in a tent onstage is somewhat bemusing.
Another much larger tent sits across from her before its canvas is dropped to reveal a bank of sound and visual equipment where the rest of her band perform.
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