Lykke Li Gives New Album Update: She’s Going More “Pop”

Last week, Lykke Li, Miike Snow members Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg, Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, and producer Jeff Bhasker announced the launch of their new supergroup LIV and debuted a song called “Wings of Love.” In a new interview with Pitchfork, Li revealed that in addition to LIV, she has also been working on a new solo album. The follow-up to 2014’s excellent I Never Learn has been headed in a more “pop” direction, she said, explaining: “I feel like I’m always doing opposite things. LIV was very analogue and ’70s, and now I’m accidentally doing pop, in a very non-shameful way.” 

She went on: “I kind of started out pop by accident, and everyone was like, ‘Oh, you’re pop,’ and I was like, ‘No, I’m not! I’m indie!’ I got really offended. And then I had to make—my third album [I Never Learn] is like the least pop album ever. Then now I’m getting back to it and feeling like, Cyndi Lauper wrote some fucking amazing songs. That’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

Read our full interview about LIV with Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt over on the Pitch.

 

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