Lykke Li - This summer's biggest hit?

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

i want to like everything lykke li releases, but these first two songs from the new album are . . . uninspiring.

yeah, this is shaping up to be my biggest disappointment of 2014 so far

I could barely get through the single.

really sad because the last album was so good.

I like this single more than the first track but yeah sadly I have to agree that these songs are not that inspiring.

POW! https://soundcloud.com/lykkeli/gunshot

The new album is the biggest disappointment of the year so far for me. Liked the first album and loved the second one but sadly this does nothing for me. The songs are just bland and don't move me in anyway. Maybe it's a grower but on my first listen it was hard to get through which is strange as it's so short.

I didn't think No Rest for the Wicked was anything to write home about, but I've absolutely loved Love Me Like I'm Not Made of Stone and Gunshot (as in LOVE, as in they're two of my favorite Lykke Li songs yet). Acquiring the whole thing right now as I type this, so I'll weigh in later.

If you like those you'll probably like the rest. I'll have to give the album another go as Wounded Rhymes is one of my favourite albums of the decade so far and I want to love this too.

even though i'm not into what i've heard from this record, i'm still a fan, and glad to see she's getting some solid early reviews.

Don't really understand the negativity in here. Played it through 3 times yesterday, and it sounded quite pretty, but much less twee than the first couple of records.

Compupost pointed this out to me, pretty dang close!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV6LPx1ezYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9OJk9i4Kg

^^ my exact thoughts when listening to that track

i love this record

these very sad songs are extremely sunlit

While I feel glad she's ditched a lot of the twee affectations from her first two albums, I wish she had written some stronger hooks. This is nice enough but I listened to it twice in a row and I'm struggling to remember anything about it other than it could with some drums and more dynamicism in the songwriting. Hopefully now she's got the break-up ballads out her system she can make an album that's a bit more rounded - I'm not saying she would ever suit confrontational abrasiveness but the mature swagger (well, comparative at least) of Wounded Rhymes suited her better.

Pretty much agree with this. I'm all for a nice stripped down heartbreak record (Something similar to the last Goldfrapp album maybe?) but the songs are just not strong enough. I can't remember anything about it after a couple of listens whereas the last album the songs got stuck in my head very quickly. I just kind of assumed because she made such a leap in quality from the first album to the second that it would continue with this one. Will probably give it another chance because Wounded Rhymes is such a great record. I'm jealous of the people getting a lot out of it.

these songs definitely get stuck in my head. particularly "no rest for the wicked" and "gunshot". I do empathise with the idea that the album is a bit underwritten, and I'm sad that a song like "Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone" was left as a spare guitar demo - it deserves more ceremonial production.

the hooks aren't the problem, it's the wall of blah reverbed sound that engulfs everything, like an entire record of "sadness is my boyfriend," and one of those was enough. (I also think a lot of the biographical criticism is forced and overstated -- she got her HEART BROKEN! and MOVED TO L.A.! ...and as a musician the reason you move from Sweden to L.A. is more likely so you can do things like work with Greg Kurstin.)

otm. I had the same problem with Angel Olsen, this year's other acclaimed singer-songwriter album. The mix and arrangement choices leaned too heavily on the lugubrious.

usually i find an excessively reverbed landscape dulling and alienating but something about this one is really enveloping and inhabitable for me

would love to hear emmylou harris sing "love me like i'm not made of stone"

Sadness is my Boyfriend is great. One of my favourites on the last album.

I think "Love Me..." is absolutely stunning as-is and feel even the slightest bit more of any production flourishes could possibly have ruined it.

I'm not usually a fan of shticky reverb, but I don't mind it at all here. It just feels like a really natural way of presenting these songs