Youth Novels, the debut album by Sweden's Lykke Li , was - like it or not - one of the key points of the Scandinavian scene in recent years, leading to (temporary) conclusion with wisdom, courage and balance that line of experimental pop that tries to bring together Scandinavian singer-songwriter introspection, the melodic potential of charts, diagrams traditional and electronic sounds. The same road traveled by skill area by indie artists (who have also put one foot charts) as Nina Kinert, Peter Bjorn & John or Royksopp.
Three years after the twenty-five Youth Novels Lykke Li Zachrisson back to get the expert produce Björn Yttling and publish these days Wounded Rhymes , entirely composed and recorded in Los Angeles - she says - to escape from the darkness of Stockholm and be inspired by the excesses of the Californian city.
Youth knows no pain piece that opens the album, immediately establishing a bridge we were familiar with Lykke Li: the rhythm and the bass full of vigor and alluring melody di stampo sixtie hanno quel fascino futuribile e decadente al tempo stesso che è il marchio di fabbrica della Nostra (e di Yttling, ovviamente). Marchio che ritroviamo anche nella successiva I follow rivers : linee squadrate da Depeche Mode e ritornello di essenziale facilità che ne fanno un singolo di perverso fascino. Le cose cambiano sensibilmente nelle seguenti Love out of lust e Unrequited love (magnifico il gospel senza tempo di quest’ultima), in cui la voce di Lykke Li si libera da ogni reticolato ritmico e tutto attorno ad essa si fa morbido, caldo e confortevole, tanto che sembra di essere entrati nel mondo elegante ed ovattato dei Concretes. Get some ritorna a battere duro, sensual and sarcastic at the same time, and when LL sings "Like the shotgun needs an outcome, I'm your prostitute, you gon get some" almost seems to wink to Lady Gaga. The powerful Rich kids blues leave another deep impression in the path of the album, just before the roundabout immediacy of Sadness is a blessing , resplendent ballad spectoriana of impudence, which could be included in the repertoire of a Marit Bergman but also safely Eurovision in the compilation, as it remains the question of being in front of a jewel or a fake. Much better then the slow, dense, dilated, exciting places I know, long and painful confession for voice and guitar that revives the heart shadow of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and makes it seem almost superfluous to the sonic assault of the next and so beautiful Jerome . Closes the path to the dark romanticism of choral Silent my song, strongly places the mood of elegant and suggestive shadows that characterizes the entire album, with outstanding ability between the heart and reason melodic rhythm, warmth and coolness, Good and Evil , delicate strokes and punched in the stomach.
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