Marcel Winatschek

Lykke Li: I Follow Rivers

Lykke Li’s I Follow Rivers works with almost nothing—just her voice caught against some sparse synth that doubles back on itself. There’s something both fragile and cold about it. The song became inescapable for a while, everywhere at once, which usually kills anything dead, but this one survived it. Maybe because it never tried to be anything more than what it was—just a simple thing repeated until it starts to mean something.