Clash Music
“Surely the most innovative, mesmerising and disquieting set this venue has seen in a while, full of the discordant arrangements that make Hukkelberg’s sound so distinctive. Unsettling and utterly compelling, as Hukkelberg resigns herself to her demons, and we along with her, after what has been a journey through the underworld of her mind.”
Read the review by Theresa Heath

Dalston Sound
Hukkelberg’s magnificent, unstressed voice carries the weight of songs that are variously confessional, yearning, and rawly emotive. The set takes an increasingly dramatic arc through all these moods, and the intimacy of their delivery forges a real communion with the audience – a gratifyingly full house. Overstatement isn’t Hukkelberg’s style, and it’s the sense of her music unfolding a personal psychological dramaturgy that holds her audience in thrall.”
Read the review by Tim Owen

“Occupy Wall Street now has an A-list soundtrack: the compilation Occupy This Album.” – Rolling Stone

Music For Occupy is a compilation of music by, for, and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99%, released 15th May 2012.  Among many great artists such as Mogwai, Ani DiFranco, Patti Smith, Tom Morello, Yo La Tengo, Anti-Flag, Willie Nelson, there’s one of our own: Hanne Hukkelberg, who contributed the song ‘On My Wall’

See the full track listing here.

Listen to a digital sampler of the album here.

Watch Hanne live in London, 30 April 2012, presented by Bird on The Wire

Following quite spectacular press reviews for her fourth album ‘Featherbrain‘. We’re excited to announce Hanne‘s first UK show in over two years, at London’s Lexington, 30th April, promoted by the goode and juste Bird on The Wire, and supported by the wonderful Fireworks Night.

“Darkness and space extend in all directions. There is no discussing this in less than epic terms. Dragons are the one true rating system, and ‘Featherbrain’ is 100 percent dragons.” – The Quietus

Tickets £8 here and here.

Doors 7.30
Fireworks Night 8.30
Hanne Hukkelberg 9.30

Featherbrain is a risky album. Both dissonant and lyrical, it is music for headphones and notebooks. Its intimate, eccentric sounds demand your intimacy and your eccentricity, but the effort is rewarded: a personal and honest sonic world opens up, in fact, so sincere Hukkelberg had to toughen up to record it. Listen carefully.

“After one listen to this album, you’ll be freaked out. After several, you’ll start to pick it apart, to understand it, and you will end up raving about it to everyone you know.”
– The Stool Pigeon

Supporting are Fireworks Night who lovingly embrace two of popular music’s most seductive elements; rhythm and the pleasure of the chorus. The intricate arrangements and compelling lyrical narratives of their previous records still remain but this time they are played by a band smitten with music as a vehicle for joy as well as sorrow, a combination which has made them an unusually exhilarating band – able at once to move feet, head and heart.

“A dizzyingly talented dash-cutting ensemble trading in claret confessionals and gravel voiced, tobacco-stained drama, all told via nigh-on perfect string accompaniment and fantastic songwriting flair.” – Drowned in Sound

It’s spooky.

Hanne Hukkelberg‘s fourth album – Featherbrain – will be released on Propeller Recordings on 17th February 2012 (Germany, Switzerland, Austria), 20th (UK) and 24th (Norway) and the only way we could be more excited about it would be if, on release day, she walked into our office with her band and played the whole thing in front of us.‘Noah’ is arguably Hukkelberg’s finest track to date: a gorgeous, haunting song, opening with her magnificent vocal, both discordant and mellifluous, backed by treated piano and a quiet heartbeat, gradually building to a crescendo of layered voices, strings, a quickening pulse, falling away like a firework’s embers, leaving us caught between stillness, and an anguished lunge for the ‘repeat’ button.

“It’s the way that the absurdly diverse instrumentation of ‘Featherbrain’ dovetails together that reveals the true depth of Hanne Hukkelberg’s talent. And her voice is as versatile as her instrumentation, shapeshifting to suit the mood and moment.”
– The Wire

Hanne Hukkelberg – Noah by Propeller Recordings