Classic Objects is a map of places: past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval's band used to play in; public places Hval missed throughout lockdown; imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death, and art can take you.
It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things. Classic Objects is Hval's version of a pop album. Every song has a verse and a chorus. There are interchangeable moments of complexity, interesting melodies throughout, and a feeling of elevation and clarity in the choruses. Heba Kadry mixed it to sound as though it's played through "a stereo in a mysterious room".
Tracklisting
- Year Of Love
- American Coffee
- Classic Objects
- Cemetery of Splendour
- Year of Sky
- Jupiter
- Freedom
- The Revolution Will Not Be Owned
