Rockettothesky – Grizzly Man

i never really cared about „genres“ in music. except when reviewers are saying that an artist wouldn't fit in any. then i immediately know i won't like the music. oh, how often it just means one song sounds like the artist is trying one kind of music and with the next song another. yes, the artist doesn't fit in ONE genre. he just tries several, mostly without success.
Jenny Hval doesn't fit into any genre. there is just no genre that describes her music. just when you think you can pin something on it, the music breaks out of the narrowed down pool of comparisons, escapes and takes a different direction. and this without changing significantly or hard breaks. a steady flowing current ever diverting its course.
carried by old fashioned strings and minimal electronics her filligree, almost fragile voice rockets up to celestial heights and paints old irish ornamentations in the clear blue sky. so the least common denominator would be something like „folk“. and one can just hope to not get lost in the bermuda triangle of the terms „neofolk“, „freak folk“ and „irish folk“. which is hard since most people's idea of irish folk is defined by Enya, The Pogues and „Auld Lang Syne“.
well, „Grizzly Man“ is the song that everyone can agree upon being much more appropriate for the „Lord Of The Rings“ soundtrack. just as the very same "everyones" would have been heavily disappointed when Jenny Hval really had wasted her music for the evil that blockbuster movies are.
since there are still some JRR. Tolkien books left to become endless cinematic tortures let's keep our fingers crossed to not get bereft of the chance to diss Enya and know better.




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