Jenny Hval - The Practice of LoveAt first listen, The Practice of Love, Jenny Hval's seventh full length album, unspools with an almost deceptive ease. Across eight tracks, filled with arpeggiated synth washes and the kind of lilting beats that might have drifted, loose and unmoored, from some forgotten mid '90s trance single, The Practice of Love feels, first and foremost, compellingly humane. Given the horror and viscera of her previous album, 2016's Blood Bitch, The Practice of

The Negationist provides the type of fist pumping soundtrack sure to energize any listener

With nothing else in his life plans aside from the pursuit of creating the best music he possibly could while sustaining his promising acting career

explore the biblical past like never before

But as night deepens and snow starts to fall

which was hinted at on previous releases

the duel between Acrimante and Tidemo (Commendatore) and the latter's death at Acrimante's hand

just before the album took root

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includes a fold-out insert with artist interviews and additional liner notes by Brazilian music scholar Allen Thayer

and both believe that music needs to come from their souls and deepest feelings

uber-kosmiche 'Pink Sails' hovers over swirling neon-synthy-strings and yet more unobtrusive percussion

It's a reminder that we can escape into art at any given moment