Lykke Li – ‘Afterparty’ Review: a Brief but Heady Last Round From the Swedish Alt-Pop Icon
The nine-track album runs 24 minutes and leans on strings, synths and stark lyrics as Li frames it as a possible final release.
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Lykke Li Creates a Revenge-Pop Opus With ‘The Afterparty’: Album Review
As a Swedish pop auteur who rose to prominence in the late ‘00s, Lykke Li is probably sick to death of Robyn comparisons — but the only one worth making is to point out that by comparison, Li’s work has been dramatically underrated. She was working a similar musical vein at around the same time (her debut album, “Youth Novels,” was released in 2008) and listening to her past work, it’s clear that her influence has been strong, if more low-key in…
Lykke Li – ‘Afterparty’ review: a brief but heady last round from the Swedish alt-pop icon
“Let’s talk about the album. It was a motherfucker to make,” Lykke Li told an audience gathered to hear her sixth studio album ‘Afterparty’ at a playback in Los Angeles earlier this year. Offsetting her need to make something more “extroverted, impulsive and chaotic” than predecessor ‘EYEYE’, as she told NME, against the cultural backdrop of Trump and AI while raising two kids, the Swedish alt-pop icon found herself in a place that “feels like i…
On "The Afterparty," Lykke Li manages to capture the ugly and the beautiful. If it's her last album, it's a nice way to put an end to it, writes Anna Rosenström.
Lykke Li är tillbaka. Hon är en av våra största svenska musikexporter och under sin snart tjugo år långa kariär har hon blivit en gigant inom den mörka indiepopen. Nu kommer hennes sjätte album. Kulturnyheternas music critic Tali da Silva har lyssnat.
Lykke Li vs. the Algorithm
Lykke Li is done playing the game.It’s the afternoon before the release of The Afterparty, her sixth and reportedly final studio album, when I find her tucked in the back corner of Nine Orchard’s lobby bar, quietly decompressing between press appointments and photo calls. Nearly incognito in an oversized black sweatshirt and wrap-around Saint Laurent sunglasses, she appears mythic, like the rock stars she studied for this record. She’s exhausted…
Lykke Li releases final album ‘The Afterparty’
The Swedish Pop auteur turns shame, chaos and spiritual collapse into a euphoric dusk-to-dawn farewell. Chloé Le Drezen Lykke Li has unveiled ‘The Afterparty’, her sixth and final studio album, a twenty-four-minute odyssey that turns the chaos of the human experience into something euphoric, confrontational and strangely cleansing. Written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm, the project features a seventeen-piece string section, multiple d…
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