Biography
Jenny Hval, the Norwegian musician and writer, teams up with longtime associate Håvard Volden in the Lost Girls project, bringing an open sensuality to their sonic explorations. Hval’s vocals, shifting between speech and song, combine with sustained guitar tones and electronic textures to produce music that moves between reflective passages and tense energy. The same instinctive interplay between the pair surfaces in the lengthy, meditative tracks on the 2018 Feeling EP and the freely improvised debut album Menneskekollektivet from 2021, just as it does amid the sharp experimental-rock outbursts on Selvutsletter in 2023.
Before Lost Girls existed, multi-instrumentalist Volden—who had played in Hval’s touring band for more than ten years—also performed with her earlier group Rockettothesky. The two previously recorded together as Nude on Sand, releasing a self-titled 2012 album built on acoustic experiments. They began the Lost Girls endeavor from scratch, taking its name from Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s 2006 graphic novel. Their first EP, Feeling, arrived in March 2018 and contained a piece already familiar from Hval’s live sets alongside a composition Volden had refined for years until her vocals supplied the final element. To create their initial full-length, Lost Girls booked time at Trondheim’s Øra studios and developed improvisations from early musical outlines. The resulting exploratory album Menneskekollektivet—Norwegian for “human collective”—appeared in March 2021 on Smalltown Supersound.
Planning a 2022 concert at Les Subsistances in Lyon, France, led the duo to generate new pieces that formed October 2023’s Selvutsletter. Among Hval and Volden’s most compact and melodic statements, the album merged fractured rhythms and guitar lines with traditional folk components and thoughts on the nature of creativity itself.
Before Lost Girls existed, multi-instrumentalist Volden—who had played in Hval’s touring band for more than ten years—also performed with her earlier group Rockettothesky. The two previously recorded together as Nude on Sand, releasing a self-titled 2012 album built on acoustic experiments. They began the Lost Girls endeavor from scratch, taking its name from Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s 2006 graphic novel. Their first EP, Feeling, arrived in March 2018 and contained a piece already familiar from Hval’s live sets alongside a composition Volden had refined for years until her vocals supplied the final element. To create their initial full-length, Lost Girls booked time at Trondheim’s Øra studios and developed improvisations from early musical outlines. The resulting exploratory album Menneskekollektivet—Norwegian for “human collective”—appeared in March 2021 on Smalltown Supersound.
Planning a 2022 concert at Les Subsistances in Lyon, France, led the duo to generate new pieces that formed October 2023’s Selvutsletter. Among Hval and Volden’s most compact and melodic statements, the album merged fractured rhythms and guitar lines with traditional folk components and thoughts on the nature of creativity itself.
Albums
Singles
