Wounded Rhymes
Any honey flowing through Lykke Li\'s coy pop fully hardened on this dark and doomy follow-up to her 2008 debut album. The Swedish singer/songwriter traps the loss of youth and love in a warped wall of sound that echoes vintage girl-group pop on big, gushing torch songs like \"Unrequited Love\" and \"Sadness Is a Blessing.\" But she comes into her own when harnessing her womanly power, with big, booming percussion on the tribal-esque thriller \"Get Some.\"
Swedish star follows her Youth Novels with another record that captures the complex, contradictory, and intense yearning of young adulthood.
When Sweden’s Lykke Li first appeared, she seemed like an indie-pop dream—slight of stature, big on heart. Adorable, energetic, and just artsy enough, she was effortlessly able to weave radio buoyancy through a comely web of electro, folk, and rock. Bloggers and critic types were sure they’d discovered their…
At the drop of a programmed snare hit, Lykke Li, the Swedish princess of off-beat art-pop, can turn from sugar-coated…
Returning to the album game three years after the charmingly curious Youth Novels, Lykke Li Zachrisson has grown up and moved away a little bit from the rather timid, waifish, precocious young woman of her debut.
Which at first glance may seem a relatively simple premise, yet, with the help Bjorn Yttling (Swedish producer and one third of the team behind ‘Young Folks’) Lykke Li created an interesting, bewildering, and charmingly simple brand of pop.
On her 2008 debut Youth Novels, Lykke Li scored a hit with "I'm Good, I'm Gone" by essentially rewriting Lee Dorsey's "Working in a Coal Mine."
After touring 2008’s post-pop debut ‘Youth Novels’, the Swedish singer-songwriter acquired a failed relationship and escaped to the LA hills to write away her anguish and birth this brilliant se
The Swedish pop star's heartbreak-saturated songs make you yearn for some respite, but they suit her, writes <strong>Michael Cragg</strong>
Frank, full-bore pop on the second album from Sweden's one-woman musical tornado. Review by Kieron Tyler