“When you’re dancing, you free your emotions and say things you can’t with words. You’d never tell how shy I am if you saw how I dance…”
 
Just 18 months ago she was complaining to her mentor, Bjorn ‘of Peter and John fame’ Yttling, that everything had gone wrong because she was 20 and still hadn’t released an album. Now 22, she’s finding that things are on track. The album ‘Youth Novels’, in all its minimalist brilliance, is now scheduled for a well-deserved UK release this summer.

Recorded with Bjorn over the last 10 months, ‘Youth Novels’ weaves its way through 14 perfectly-realised chapters. You’ll hear harpsichords, flutes, and theremins throughout the album but you’ll also hear Lykke Li’s magnificently brittle, candy coated vocals. It includes recent single ‘Little Bit’, continues with the punchy throb of ‘I’m Good I’m Gone’, and brilliant tracks like reluctant breakup anthem ‘Breaking It Up’, Let It Fall’ and ‘Hanging High’.

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MyVillage, 03rd June