Experimental Norwegian singer Jenny Hval has announced a national tour to coincide with the upcoming release of her album Blood Bitch. Hval has already released the video for the lead single “Female Vampire”, which can be viewed below.

Hval, who is no stranger to avant garde videos, says that the video is a callback to “the low-budget horror sexploitation films of the late ’70s and early ’80s”. Explaining how, she says “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’s intriguing combination of horror sexploitation and modern digital youth culture displays her anachronistic creativity. The theme of vampires reoccurs throughout the album, as the project itself is focused on the idea of blood. Elaborating on this, Hval said the album is “an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.” Despite the grandiose scale of the storytelling on the album, Hval insists that the project is the most personal album she has ever created.

Jenny Hval Tour Dates
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07/15: Chicago, IL – Constellation w/ Circuit Des Yeux
07/16: Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
08/05: Katowice, Poland – Off Festival
09/04: Larmer Tree Gardens, United Kingdom – End of the Road
09/14: Oslo, Norway – Ultima Festival
09/29: Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
09/30: New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
10/04: Boston, MA – Great Scott
10/05: Montreal, Canada – Casa del Popolo
10/07: Toronto, Canada – The Drake
10/08: Oberlin, OH – Oberlin College
10/09: Washington, DC – DC9
10/17: Glasgow, United Kingdom – Stereo
10/18: Manchester, United Kingdom – Soup Kitchen
10/19: London, United Kingdom – Oslo
10/21: Brussels, Belgium – AB
10/22: Paris, France – Point Ephemere
10/24: Luzern, Switzerland – Suedpol
10/26: Berlin, Germany – Kantine am Berghain
10/27: Amsterdam, Netherlands – De School
10/28: Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel
10/29: Copenhagen, Denmark – Jazzhouse
11/11: Los Angeles, CA – Resident
11/12: Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
11/14: Portland, OR – Holocene
11/15: Seattle, WA – Kremwerk
11/16: Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret