Bevor diese Woche das neue Album der gefeierten Konzeptkünstlerin Jenny Hval erscheint, teilt die Norwegerin mit "Accident" einen weiteren Vorboten aus „The Practice Of Love“, das am 13. September 2019 bei Sacred Bones erscheint. “She is an accident / She is made for other things / Born for cubist yearnings / Born to Write. Born to Burn / She is an accident / Flesh in dissent.” In „Accident“ plaudern Jenny Hval und die australische Musikerin Laura Jean über das Thema Kinderlosigkeit. Zu hören sind zwei Freundinnen, die ihre eigene Ambivalenz gegenüber dem Thema Mutterschaft zum Ausdruck bringen. Was bedeutet es überhaupt, in der Welt zu sein? Was bedeutet es, ein Mensch zu sein? Kinder kriegen - ja oder nein? Was müssen wir tun, um uns als Lebewesen bestätigt zu fühlen? Zu hauchdünnen Synthesizer-Schichten und synkopierten Beats geht Jenny Hval Fragen wie diesen in „Accident“ nach.

Das Video zu „Accident“ stammt von Zia Anger und zeigt ihre eigene Mutter beim Durchleben unterschiedlicher Stadien des Mutterseins. Das Video trägt die Handschrift früherer Kollaborationen zwischen Anger und Hval und zeigt Ausschnitte aus „Conceptual Romance", „That Battle Is Over", „Sabbath" und „Innocence Is Kinky". Zia Anger und Jenny Hval über „Accident“:

"With the release of this video we planned on publishing a dialogue between the two of us. Something that spoke about the kind of work we are doing, and that also referenced the theme of the video — the pairing of production and reproduction.

It’s a given that the product of some artistic work is worthless. You are therefore expected to “mother” it instead of working and being compensated for it. And sometimes this is the best kind of work. Because it doesn’t feel valuable. Because not everybody will like it, or understand it. Because it won’t immediately be sucked up into the capitalist scroll. It has time and space to be conceived of, to sit in utero, to be birthed, to have its umbilical cord cut, and to live, to breathe.

The same is true of our collaboration. We are both seen and heard by each other, and often validated by our responses to each other. However big (with a video) or small (with an email.) Our collaboration validates each other’s right to breathe, to live, to speak. It’s the closest we get to magic.

This dialogue however, felt rushed. We will publish it at a later date. Until then."