A pair weeks in the past, Lykke Li introduced her new LP The Afterparty at a personal listening occasion, saying it is “perhaps her remaining” album. Now, she’s formally asserting the file, and the lead single “Fortunate Once more” is right here.
“To me it is samsara in a track,” the Swedish singer-songwriter explains concerning the tune, which has a pattern of Max Richter’s The 4 Seasons. “The wheel of life; profitable, dropping, dwelling, dying. Having had one thing and praying you will have it once more. Whether or not it is intercourse, cash, vitality, love. I all the time mentioned I needed the Vivaldi track at my marriage ceremony or funeral however I feel that is giving extra revenge heist power.”
Concerning the album, she says, “I discover that we’re in an period the place everyone seems to be speaking about, ‘My increased self,’ Fuck that. That is an album coping with your decrease self: your want for revenge, your disgrace, despair, all of it.” She describes her alterego on The Afterparty as “a Ram Dass for fuckboys.” It was written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra. Try the glittering “Fortunate Once more” beneath.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Not Gon Cry”
02 “Comfortable Now”
03 “Fortunate Once more”
04 “Well-known Final Phrases”
05 “Future Concern”
06 “So Comfortable I May Die”
07 “Sick Of Love”
08 “Knife In The Coronary heart”
09 “Euphoria”
TRACKLIST:
04/10 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Competition
04/17 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Competition
05/22 – Rio de Janeiro, BR @ Vivo Rio
05/24 – São Paulo, BR @ Parque Ibirapuera
06/19 – Prague, CZ @ Metronome Competition
07/05 – London, UK @ Finsbury Park ^
07/10 – Trenčín, SK @ Pohoda Competition
09/19 – Mexico Metropolis, MX @ Palacio de los Deportes *
* w/ Robyn
^ w/ Wolf Alice
The Afterparty is out 5/8 through Neon Gold Information/Futures✦. Pre-order it right here.
