JENNY HVAL
Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
Her last three records have established Hval as an avant-garde great: a delicate-voiced, improv-style synth queen obsessed with those rich, curious spaces (particularly the anatomical kind) where the profane and profound meet. Blood Bitch is just so; a cool, eerie, occasionally disturbing paean to “vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter”.