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.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Kot is wrong.
It's Lick-ee. Simple as that.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Wouldn't be the first time. His over-pronunciation was driving me crazy!
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
What do you expect from a guy who pronounces "persona" as per-SAHN-uh.
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
check her interview with narduwar to hear her pronounce her own name
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 14 April 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol swedish act gets stellan skarsgard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-b3u5jDiU
― Gukbe, Friday, 29 April 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
also something about lykke <3 <3 <3
good performance on conan last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGJ1pXK-eE
― jaxon, Friday, 29 April 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
On Later... earlier this week.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlMpS-r5Ryg&feature=watch_response
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i strongly dislike "sadness is a blessing"
― j lol (surm), Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes my boyfriend puts it on in the house on saturday mornings (i hope not this one) - just feels trite
― j lol (surm), Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"sadness is a blessing" is the perfect example of how it is oft best to show, not tell
― j lol (surm), Saturday, 30 April 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
'sandess if a blessing' fulfills my desire for spector
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Monday, 16 May 2011 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
actually it kind of sucks the more you listen to it
― THAT'S LIGHTWEIGHT DICKERY (dayo), Monday, 16 May 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lykkeli.com/splash/icantexplainbut
New album on May 5th. Very excited about this.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
really want to like this but the single, or whatever it is, is dreadful
― katherine, Monday, 3 March 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link
sounds quite ok to my ears
― nostormo, Monday, 3 March 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Really like the song on popjustice.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― katherine, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Love Me Like I'm Not Made of Stone is gorgeous.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
don't like it.also, her make up is dreadful
― nostormo, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9OJk9i4Kg
― all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
i want to like everything lykke li releases, but these first two songs from the new album are . . . uninspiring.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah, this is shaping up to be my biggest disappointment of 2014 so far
― katherine, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
I could barely get through the single.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
really sad because the last album was so good.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I like this single more than the first track but yeah sadly I have to agree that these songs are not that inspiring.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
POW! https://soundcloud.com/lykkeli/gunshot
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 5 May 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Monday, 5 May 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
Compupost pointed this out to me, pretty dang close!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV6LPx1ezYshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9OJk9i4Kg
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 May 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
^^ my exact thoughts when listening to that track
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 8 May 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
i love this record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
these very sad songs are extremely sunlit
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 8 May 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Thursday, 8 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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.)
― katherine, Friday, 9 May 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 May 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
usually i find an excessively reverbed landscape dulling and alienating but something about this one is really enveloping and inhabitable for me
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 9 May 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
would love to hear emmylou harris sing "love me like i'm not made of stone"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 9 May 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Sadness is my Boyfriend is great. One of my favourites on the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
three or so listens i think i've determined this album is just too much of too little to hold me
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link