Lykke Li returns with the long awaited follow up to 2008’s ‘Youth Novels‘. Back then the Swedish starlet was a shy teenager whose quirky manner and heart-on-sleeve delivery made her impossible not to like. Still, the very inexperience and exuberance that made the album so endearing also produced some of its most obvious flaws.
On ‘Wounded Rhymes‘ she is savvy enough to maintain some of that original cutesy charm but is eager to show the lessons she has picked up over the years. there is a new found confidence and sassiness that flows right out of the speakers providing a larger emphasis on production and layered vocals that make this album so alluring.
Our boy Thom added her to his year end list saying “never belting a epic chorus at you or over complicating a melody, Lykke Li is smart, sexy and playful. ‘Wounded Rhymes‘ has kept the charmingly simple strokes of her debut whilst her confidence has blossomed.”
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