Jenny Hval releases Female Vampire video

By Scott Munro
( Prog )
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View Jenny Hval promo for her track Female Vampire – from upcoming album Blood Bitch

Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval

Jenny Hval has released a video for her track Female Vampire.

The song features on the Norwegian artist’s upcoming album Blood Bitch, which will launch on September 30.

Hval says of the promo: “What does eternity feel like? How do you ‘live’ when there is no death? Usually, the vampire is depicted as a lonesome, all-knowing and ancient creature combining violence, aggressive sexuality and deceitful youth.

“The pack behind the video for Female Vampire wanted to explore vampiric eternity in a different narrative: in a group of romancing friends. The vampire friends move through their hometown of Oslo, partaking in public and private rituals of moving together.

“We also wanted to combine ideas from old vampire trash movies and modern trashy iPhone videos, resulting in an enigmatic world of time-lapse like slow motion where everything is always moving, or moving on. Not there, or not there yet.”

Hval heads out on the road next month in support of the follow-up to 2015’s Apocalypse, Girl.

Jenny Hval Blood Bitch tracklist

  1. Ritual Awakening
  2. Female Vampire
  3. In The Red
  4. Conceptual Romance
  5. Untamed Region
  6. The Great Undressing
  7. Period Piece
  8. The Plague
  9. Secret Touch
  10. Lorna

Jenny Hval 2016 tour dates

Jun 03: Duedingen Kilbi Festival, Switzerland
Jun 04: Barcelona Primavera Sound Festival, Spain
Jul 16: Chicago Pitchfork Festival, IL
Aug 05: Katowice Off Festival, Poland
Sep 01-05: Blandford End Of The Road Festival, UK
Sep 14: Oslo Ultima Festival, Norway
Sep 30: New York LPR, NY
Oct 17: Glasgow Stereo, UK
Oct 18: Manchester Soup Kitchen, UK
Oct 19: London Oslo, UK
Oct 21: Brussel AB, Belgium
Oct 22: Paris Point Ephemere, France
Oct 24: Luzern Suedpol, Switzerland
Oct 26: Berlin Kantine Am Berghain, Germany
Oct 27: Amsterdam De School, Netherlands
Oct 28: Hamburg Kampnagel, Germany
Oct 29: Copenhagen Jazzhouse, Denmark
Nov 11: Los Angeles Resident, CA

Jenny Hval details Blood Bitch

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent 35 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott keeps Louder’s buyer’s guides up to date, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more. Over the last 10 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog. He's previously written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald newspapers, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to tech reviews, video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.