Lykke Li: Get Some
There’s this moment on ’Gunfire’ where everything gets loose and urgent at once, and you feel her just saying fuck it to the precision of her earlier albums. That’s the whole thing with Get Some—she was tired of being pretty and controlled. The songs still have that ache in them, that Lykke Li DNA of wanting something you can’t have, but now she’s loose with it. Letting it get messy.
I keep coming back to this record when I’m feeling restless. It’s got enough pop shine to feel good on lazy mornings, but there’s real wanting underneath all of it. Not the kind of record that changes your life, but the kind you put on when you want to sit with something that understands what dissatisfaction feels like. She sounds like she’s figured out how to be both vulnerable and a little reckless at the same time, which is harder than it sounds.