Blood Bitch
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| Studio album by Jenny Hval | ||||
| Released | September 30, 2016 | |||
| Genre | Art pop, avant-garde, electronica | |||
| Label | Sacred Bones Records | |||
| Producer | Jenny Hval & Lasse Marhaug | |||
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| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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Blood Bitch is the sixth studio album by Norwegian musician Jenny Hval, released on September 30, 2016 on Sacred Bones Records. Co-produced by Hval and Lasse Marhaug, the album was proceeded by the singles, "Female Vampire", "Conceptual Romance" and "Period Piece".
Described as "an investigation of blood," Blood Bitch is a concept album which draws parallels between a fictional time-travelling vampire, named Orlando, and Hval's own experiences touring her previous studio album, Apocalypse, girl (2015). The album's lyrical content is also influenced by menstruation, 1970s horror and exploitation films and Virginia Woolf.
During the writing process for Blood Bitch, Hval was influenced by vampiric imagery and 1970s horror and exploitation films: “I was amazed about how much taboo they could contain without moral compass, how much incest there could be.” In a statement released unpon the album's announcement, she elaborated: "Blood Bitch is a fictitious story, fed by characters and images from horror and exploitation films of the '70s. With that language, rather than smart, modern social commentary, I found I could tell a different story about myself and my own time: a poetic diary of modern transience and transcendence."
Describing the album has her "most fictional and most personal album," Hval noted that its dark lyrical and musical content reconnected her with her goth and metal roots: "It’s also the first album where I’ve started reconnecting with the [sic] scene I started out playing in many years ago, by remembering the drony qualities of Norwegian Black Metal. It’s an album of vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter."
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