Jenny Hval has a new video for the track “Take Care of Yourself” off her excellent 2015 LP Apocalypse, girl (Sacred Bones). On this cut, the artist’s unflinching lyrical tact find’s her in an Anne Sexton-like confessional mode as she explores notions of female identity against the confines of suburban conformity. In an excellent Pitchfork interview with Jenn Pelly this past June, Hval had this to say about the track:
“Take Care of Yourself” goes for a delicate intimacy that you can’t really get when everything becomes about sexual success, and this frightening idea that sexuality is not something that leads to something and then climaxes and it’s over; it’s this endless thing that you can never satisfy”.
Filmed and edited by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, the video, much like Zia Anger‘s surreal offering for “Sabbath,” peels back the layers on Hval’s life as a performer. While the later used Anger’s cell phone footage of the “band” on the road, and prominently featured Hval and her wigged “Graces,” “Take Care of Yourself” follows a similar tact using performance footage. Abstract and dream-like, Joris-Peyrafitte has a good eye for those kinds of visual moments that carry a hard to define poetic weight. While you’re at it, watch Jenny Hval’s video for “Sabbath” here…
