Lykke Li Again

Lykke Li has a new album coming in May. No name, no specific date, just May. That’s enough to know about, anyway.

I’ve been following her work for years. Her albums work in cycles, each one returning to the same material: the guilt, the shame, the hurt, the pride—all the weight of trying to be honest in your music. In an interview, she described them as a trilogy, each record circling back with a different approach. She also talked about being misunderstood, how people focus on the surface—appearance, the pop machinery—when really she’s a songwriter working through something real.

That’s the difference that matters to me. Not the public image or the hype, but the directness. Someone thinking through something true and letting you hear it.

May can’t come soon enough.