Lost Girls – the collaborative project of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden – have returned with a new song, ‘Ruins’. It comes alongside the announcement of an autumn tour, including a show in New York City and a wave of UK and European dates. Check it out below.
“Håvard sent me this long, wonderful and kaleidoscopic bass line on top of a drum machine track that I had no clue what to do with — it felt too difficult to try to learn or tame it,” Hval explained in a statement about the new single. “I started improvising with it and moving parts around a bit, and the song began to feel like getting lost in a city at night, or a cemetery, walking around in circles, perhaps running, perhaps hiding. After improvising for a bit I realized that I was singing about this kind of pattern of movement, but as a band practice in the 90s, back when I first started playing with other people. If ‘Ruins’ is ‘about’ anything, it’s about a practice of discovery, being young and lost and feeling as if you are close to something ancient and magical.”
Lost Girls released their debut album, Menneskekollektivet, in 2021.
Lost Girls 2023 Tour Dates:
Tue Sep 26 – New York, NY – National Sawdust
Sun Nov 5 – Paris, FR – Petit Bain *
Tue Nov 7 – London, UK – Corsica Studios
Sat Nov 11 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green
* with Decisive Pink
