Photo: Paul Bachmann
After teasing some new music with a 90-second clip last week, Lykke Li has now confirmed her follow-up to 2014’s I Never Learn will indeed be entitled So Sad So Sexy.
Two previews – Hard Rain and Deep End – have accompanied the announcement with the LP slated for release on June 8th.
The aforementioned I Never Learn contained ‘a cold, almost sterile beauty to the music‘ according to Live4ever’s review:
“More impressive still is the album’s range over such a short duration. In only nine tracks Li manages to cover acres of ground, bringing influences in everywhere from classic pop, country, gospel, indie-rock and on and on and on. All of which in and of itself would be impressive, but the cleverness and charm of ‘I Never Learn’ is in just how these influences are used.”
“The tracks are not just pastiches of other songs, overwrought and overdone. Instead, much like her ghostly vocals, they are merely faint wisps of something half-heard, half-remembered. The influences are there, but they are incorporeal and unfathomable, always remaining just out of reach. Barely an echo, but certainly there.”