While she may have simply taken time for herself, it becomes increasingly apparent that she was working on an upcoming album. So, in celebration of Friday's release, which promises to be sad as ever, but her sexiest yet, here are five of our favorite Lykke Li tracks that show she's always known how to write a banger.Swedish singer Lykke Li has been relatively absent from the music scene for a while, having gone four years without releasing an album. She's lonely on 'two nights,' and messed up over unrequited love on 'sex money feelings die.' Now, however, she's channeling her misery into sensual, erotic dance tracks.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Lykke Li promised listeners, 'it's pretty depressing…I've been through some shit.' Sure enough on 'deep end' she scorns a lover for burning her with 'salty chlorine' kisses and on 'hard rain,' compares her love to a storm that calls for shelter. With her alien shimmering semi-falsetto cleaner than ever, sailing over sharp trap beats, choppy, layered production, auto-tune flourishes, and grooving drum machines, we are hearing a sultry and confident Lykke Li, tinkering with hip-hop, pop and R&B to marvelous effect.ĭon't worry, it's still sad.

The singer sheds her pastoral, twee folk and glittery disco threads, and the thunderous clouds of reverb that typically shroud her piercing vocals. On this run of singles, Lykke Li is leaning into the infectious pop sensibility that has always run in the veins of her music - subdued, but present on her minimalist 2008 breakout Youth Novels, more apparent on her upbeat 2011 Wounded Rhymes, and even on her 2014 gorgeous bummer of an album, I Never Learn. So sad so sexy hints at both a transformation, and a culmination of the Lykke Li sound we've come to know and love: ever-surprising whimsicality, divine overflowing synths, playful beats, devastating lyricism, and the capacity to wring more depth out of the word 'baby' than an old blues crooner. Based on the the two pairs of twin singles that Swedish indie-emo dream queen Lykke Li has revealed from her upcoming project so sad so sexy - out this Friday via RCA Records - we're in store for a mad ride and potentially an album of the summer.

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