Copenhagen / Berlin composer and manysided vocalist Zola Mennenöh returns with quietly smoldering new album A Labour of Love, a study of elegant, breathy, subtly experimental balladry that binds Baroquian pop, spoken word, and sound design into expressive songcraft.

Compelled to create a work exploring “the combination of extreme fragility and extreme strength.” Mennenöh speaks of asking “how to stand up for my beliefs, without needing to fight so hard, or so loudly. I wanted to be soft in communicating my truth - and yet allow myself to express my anger, and encounter the more messy sides of freeing yourself from conventions.” These themes are gracefully and artfully revealed over the duration of new album A Labour of Love, whose syntheses of delicacy and potency, of organic and digital, of songform and freeform, sculpts, in Mennenöh’s description, an iceberg hewn from silk.