Lykke Li - This summer's biggest hit?

i think the fact that bjorn from peter bjorn and john produces influences that 60s girl-group sound i'm talking about. i hear it mostly on "youth knows no pain" "rich kids blues" and "sadness is a blessing." but even without bjorn's involvement, there's a lot of 60s pop signifiers all over this record, especially in the drums and the layering of her vocals in places. i get the fever ray sound too though, "silent my song" floored me when i first heard it because of how closely it resembles stuff from that record.

can't even get over how sexy that spin cover is
http://culturepop.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/spin-lykke-li.jpg
every time i'm at the bookstore i pick it up, and then realize spin sucks and doesn't even top 80pages a mag. i can't even believe these guys continue to exist sometimes.

yeah I can hear the FR in Silent My Song too but obv also Pet Sounds. Touchstones aside, it's so massive! makes me wanna hear her + bjorn do an album of gospel hymns.

it's so immediate and indebted that it's a surefire contender for backlash-of-the-year.

lol @ that spin cover THE INSANE FUTURE OF RAP

ofwg no doubt
i mean not no doubt
but no doubt

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well the article was actually about Odd Future but i managed to lol in store as well.

the futures is nutzo, y0!~

http://s401.photobucket.com/albums/pp94/theaudiopervjr/?action=view¤t=lykkelifallon_Segment100-00-04-00-04-201.mp4

pretty good performance.

free official remix by The Magician (apparently, he's a Belgian DJ) : http://soundcloud.com/themagician/lykke-li-i-follow-rivers-the-magician-remix

(pretty shameless attempt at a piano house hit, but it works, imho)

One half of Aeroplane

The Magician is the guy that left Aeroplane, he's great.

duh - I even knew that! :-/
thx for reminding me though.

This is an impressive second record. I love the first, but I could see this one eclipsing it given time.

There's nothing on here I love as much as Little Bit but on the whole I think this is a stronger record. It's fast becoming my album of the year so far.

^^^^ I pretty much agree 100% with this post.

really looking forward to seeing her live again this year

honestly never knew it was pronounced 'licky lee' until i saw her on fallon last wk

I sort of skipped her the first time around even though I liked "Little Bit," but this album is really good. Will be listening to this a lot, I think.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xygXAqQgBk4/TWP6a4SavOI/AAAAAAAAAM8/lS_BAJU-7xI/s1600/LYkke+li+fur.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2bUu2tXIb8

Really surprised how much I like this - 'Sadness Is A Blessing' is a fantastic song. Toning down the mimsiness and going widescreen and Spectoresque has really helped.

get some is great but it does sound like I want candy to me.

i look forward to forks posting a clip of nardwuar interviewing everything from now on

will do!

This album is great.

I'm not sure how you pronounce her name for sure, but I'm pretty convinved that the way Greg Kot keeps calling here Lick-e-uh Lee doesn't seem right at all.

Kot is wrong.

It's Lick-ee. Simple as that.

Wouldn't be the first time. His over-pronunciation was driving me crazy!

What do you expect from a guy who pronounces "persona" as per-SAHN-uh.

check her interview with narduwar to hear her pronounce her own name

lol swedish act gets stellan skarsgard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-b3u5jDiU

also something about lykke <3 <3 <3

good performance on conan last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGJ1pXK-eE

On Later... earlier this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlMpS-r5Ryg&feature=watch_response

i strongly dislike "sadness is a blessing"

sometimes my boyfriend puts it on in the house on saturday mornings (i hope not this one) - just feels trite

i mean this in the least dickish way possible but i love everything about her except her music. i want to like it but it's just too gimmicky.

"sadness is a blessing" is the perfect example of how it is oft best to show, not tell

'sandess if a blessing' fulfills my desire for spector

actually it kind of sucks the more you listen to it

http://www.lykkeli.com/splash/icantexplainbut

New album on May 5th. Very excited about this.

really want to like this but the single, or whatever it is, is dreadful

sounds quite ok to my ears

Apparently "Every song will be a power ballad."

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/lykke-lis-new-album-now-has-a-tracklisting-to-go-with-it/125002/

Not sure which song you were referring to Katherine, but if it's the one linked on the PopJustice article I sadly have to agree. It does nothing for me at all.

Really like the song on popjustice.

wounded rhymes was one of my favorite albums that year but this is terrible, it's taking the worst parts of "I want to be a singer-songwriter, not a pop artist!" and "Greg Kurstin collaboration" and coming out tuneless and dreary and all ballads

Love Me Like I'm Not Made of Stone is gorgeous.

don't like it.
also, her make up is dreadful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9OJk9i4Kg