Youth Novels
The latest in a line of fine Swedish pop exports, Lykke Li's debut album-- which, although it seems like it's been around forever, is only just now out in the UK with a U.S. release to finally come this summer-- was produced and co-written by Björn Yttling of Peter Björn and John.
On her full-length debut, Lykke Li sounds like she's been waiting to refashion the classical torch song her whole life. Youth Novels is all teasing and heartbreak, with production (from Peter Bjorn & John's Bjorn Yttling) that plays on empty spaces as much as well-chosen backing. Li's voice is spacier and breathier…
The debut album from Swedish singer Lykke Li turns out to be agonisingly close to true greatness.
“Everybody But Me” is such a triumphant ode to being antisocial that it makes you want to follow Li into whatever quiet corner of the bar she manages to escape to.
Twenty-one-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li Timotej Zachrisson, or Lykke Li for short, has been steadily building a buzz among the bloggers...