Lykke Li can’t stay still. Her life and her career are relentlessly pulled forward by an impatient desire to see what’s just around the corner, her music full of ideas about moving on and breaking free. Just 18 months ago she was complaining to her mentor, Bjorn ‘of Peter and John fame’ Yttling, that everything had gone wrong because she was 20 and still hadn’t released an album.
Now 22, she’s finding that things are on track. With the release of that album in Sweden through her own label LL Recordings in January of this year, she’s been surprised and maybe a little embarrassed to find that the world is falling at her feet. She’s just the kind of person people can’t help falling in love with. The album ‘Youth Novels’, in all its minimalist brilliance, is now scheduled for a well-deserved UK release this summer.
