this album is like the female vocals from young folks stretched out over 45 mins:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002CH9DW.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― DavidM, Sunday, 19 October 2008 09:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lex otm here, it's hard to see why there would be any global craving for this
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 19 October 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard the album, but this is brilliant:
― Tape Store, Sunday, 19 October 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
On tour she is closing with A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It," with the audience doing the sampled Lou Reed humming. I thought it was goofy but fun, although I'm sure some folks here would find her rapping as annoying as they do her singing. "Little Bit" is so catchy, although her vocals worked better on cd than live. Her voice now sounds less little-girlish live, although it's still far from impressive.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
The name Lykke Li is pronounced the same way as the danish word Lykkelig, which means Happy.
It is pronounced the same way as the Norwegian word Lykkelig. The Danish one would be pronounced Lyyge'li, and that is a bit different. :)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I dig that vocal/string mix. I think that Kleerup song is better than her album. Subject to change when I actually pay attention to the album, of course.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
She was mostly fun live but her voice was weak. I read some blog posters and others calling her gig at Black Cat in DC the best gig they saw in DC this year. That seems a little over-the-top to me.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
She is unlike anyone else. Which is something that, for some, may be exciting at once. But once you get used to it, it may not be as fascinating as it was.
Still a pretty much OK album and I did find her live appearance rather fascinating. But there is better music from 2008, surely.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
She is like 1/10th as good as Marit Larsen when Marit is at her laziest.
― Matt DC, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i like a few of these songs a lot (off Youth Novels) and... i find her to be really hot
― san frandisco, Thursday, 18 December 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I just heard something by this person on the radio in a cafe. the bassline of the song seemed completely stolen off of Phil Spector's "He Hit Me (and it Felt Like a Kiss)." I thought it was a sample at first!
― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Monday, 27 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
It's been out since August but I just saw her performance at KCRW: http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb090804lykke_li
She's really good. One of the best sounding performances I've seen on the show.
― Moka, Friday, 16 October 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
one of her songs is currently playing on a Pandora station for me and I was thinking "oh this is pleasant, kind of forgettable" and then she said "I keep my legs apart for you" and I was like "wait waht"
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTPGAy5H_E
i'm feeling this. reminds me of some 80s tropical cosmic groups that i dig. Belle Stars, Via Afrika, etc
― jaxon, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
love the beat on "get some", cringe at the lyrics
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
really looking forward to her new album after 'get some' and then seeing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0A7_B-ZnM
― jaxon, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
also, damn girl
http://sidewalkhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/46689405.png
― jaxon, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/dynmk/lykke-li-i-follow-rivers
― jaxon, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLQXz0D9LU
loooooove this
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I Follow Rivers is great! Sounds like she's turned down the mimsy a lot and she sounds so much better for it. Needs better drums though, maybe a Ewan Pearson/Courtney Tidwell style remix would work, something to make the most out of that descending marimba line anyway.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
This is becoming one of my most anticipated albums in a long time. All the press I keep reading sees her dismissing the "twee" parts of Youth Novels in interviews, I'm hoping she replaces it with the muscular strength and energy that her music would benefit from.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
This is probably my favourite album of the year so far.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
psyched for this, + am sort of surprised
― just sayin, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Halfway through and this is a really good listen! Tight and short and very full-sounded, especially compared to Youth Novels, which sounded very anemic. There's a lot more support of her voice here (both like...how she sings...and how the production bolsters her).
It kind of splits the difference between girl-group Phil Spector Be My Baby-isms and 'tribal' drums or whatever.
― Alex in Montreal, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a lot less of that mimsy, ultra-girly high-pitched whine-singing on this than the debut album (think "Time Flies"), the sonics of this record and her voice suggest she has grown as much as the press narrative indicates. First impressions are of an album that's a bit front-heavy but still a massive leap forward.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Monday, 21 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Stream the entire album on soundcloud
and yeah, great record.
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm very happy that she's actually singing on this record, but i can't help but feel a bit disappointed (after only a few listens) about the move to a more 60s girlgroup sound. that might be the influence of the producer, but either way, it just seems so obvious given the emotional content of the record. it might grow on me, but what drew me to her in the first place was just how weird everything sounded on her debut.
― borntohula, Thursday, 24 February 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds more like fever ray / xx (all the dark space) than girl group to me. i like it a lot, LOVE that opening track
― NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
im liking this also; reminds me some of AZURE ray, inna slow dirge-y way
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― borntohula, Friday, 25 February 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
can't even get over how sexy that spin cover ishttp://culturepop.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/spin-lykke-li.jpgevery 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.
― mamma mia pizzeroni (kelpolaris), Friday, 25 February 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 25 February 2011 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
it's so immediate and indebted that it's a surefire contender for backlash-of-the-year.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 25 February 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ that spin cover THE INSANE FUTURE OF RAP
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 February 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
ofwg no doubti mean not no doubtbut no doubt
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 February 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
well the article was actually about Odd Future but i managed to lol in store as well.
― mamma mia pizzeroni (kelpolaris), Friday, 25 February 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the futures is nutzo, y0!~
― Thee Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s401.photobucket.com/albums/pp94/theaudiopervjr/?action=view¤t=lykkelifallon_Segment100-00-04-00-04-201.mp4
pretty good performance.
― jaxon, Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
free official remix by The Magician (apparently, he's a Belgian DJ) : http://soundcloud.com/themagician/lykke-li-i-follow-rivers-the-magician-remix
― StanM, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
(pretty shameless attempt at a piano house hit, but it works, imho)
― StanM, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
One half of Aeroplane
― willem, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
The Magician is the guy that left Aeroplane, he's great.
― Matt DC, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
duh - I even knew that! :-/thx for reminding me though.
― StanM, Monday, 7 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
This is an impressive second record. I love the first, but I could see this one eclipsing it given time.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^ I pretty much agree 100% with this post.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 March 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
really looking forward to seeing her live again this year
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 March 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly never knew it was pronounced 'licky lee' until i saw her on fallon last wk
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 March 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xygXAqQgBk4/TWP6a4SavOI/AAAAAAAAAM8/lS_BAJU-7xI/s1600/LYkke+li+fur.jpg
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link