Album Review: Iris Silver Mist by Jenny Hval

This relationship is anatomical, due to proximity of certain neurons, but it's also poetic; scent can be transportive, drawing up from a well something forgotten, inaccessible by logic or intention. The parfumier that produces Iris Silver Mist describes it in the following notes: clove, carrot seeds, green, iris, floral, vetiver, amber, musk. What does green smell like? What does it sound like? With this sensory framing, Jenny Hval's new album Iris Silver Mist is transformed into a multidimensional experience, enveloping the listener in not only sound but scent.

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An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation The covid pandemic may be five years old but its influence still lingers. The seeds for Jenny Hval‘s ninth album were sown in those strange months of the first half of 2020, when live music shut down, and so many of us tried to find something to fill that void. For the Norwegian artist Hval, the emptiness was filled by a fascination with scent and how the sense of smell can bring back memories.

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