EYEYE
While working on the songs that became 2022’s *EYEYE*, indie-pop singer Lykke Li found herself following a pattern she’d followed before: taking personal heartbreak and turning it into an album. She didn’t want to repeat herself, but she also found it interesting, in a way, that she was. So instead of scrapping the project, she turned her fixation into a kind of organizing principle: heartbreak music about the tropes of heartbreak music made by someone obsessed with heartbreak music. It’s an arty conceit, but you sense it was liberating: Where 2018’s *so sad so sexy* seemed occupied with covering the range and diversity of modern pop, *EYEYE* surrenders almost completely to its mood—a quality that gives the album an almost dreamlike consistency, filled with familiar images of dark roads (“HIGHWAY TO YOUR HEART”) and empty rooms (“NO HOTEL”), New Agey choral music (“CAROUSEL”) and ’80s ballads smoking with dry ice (“YOU DON’T GO AWAY”), beautiful and weightless throughout. “Is it only in the movies you love me?” she wonders on “5D.” And there’s the album’s realest heartbreak: Sometimes art feels more vivid than life.
Lykke Li’s intimate, ghostly fifth album takes a stripped-down approach to the all-too-familiar devastation of heartbreak.
The Scandi pioneer strips things back for her moody and cinematic fifth album, an evocative mood piece that conjures a kaleidoscopic revery
It finds its voice through an ever more personal lens, one that dials down the familiar ignitable fare in favour of intricate ambient spread.
Lykke Li once again lays her bleeding heart on the table on fifth album, 'EYEYE': her most conceptually ambitious album to date.
Lykke Li's fifth album, 'Eyeye,' is the Swedish singer-songwriter's sparest and most unadorned effort to date. Read our review.
EYEYE by Lykke Li Album review by Sam Franzini. The artist's full length drops on May 20, via PIAS Recordings and streaming services
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The Swede’s knack for fusing mournful reveries with quality hooks is in full force
Swedish singer Lykke Li has called her new album Eyeye “her most intimate work to date”. In regard to Lykke Li’s music, this feels almost impossible at this point. Her music has time and time again explored the depths of heartbreak. Is it possible to write a song more intimate than “Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone”?