Innocence Is Kinky

Norway's Jenny Hval makes a breakthrough on Innocence Is Kinky, her second album for Rune Grammofon. In the past, her music has tended toward subdued art-pop; as this title suggests, her new album is more direct, more brazen, more aggressive, and more provocative, both conceptually and musically.

Much like fellow Norwegians Sacred Harp (check out their modern-psych masterpiece, Window's a Fall), Jenny Hval plots a crude new point on the map of musical extremities.

Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky review: If there's one thing I learned from listening to this album, it's that ironic sexism is still sexism.