I think Never Gonna Love Again is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. It’s one of the few songs I keep coming back to and never get tired of listening to.
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Lykke Li, April 2015:
LONELINESS AND HEARTBREAK FOLLOWS YOU EVERYWHERE AND THEY ARE LOUDEST RIGHT AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT AND THE CROWDS QUIET. HERE’S IS AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE OF HOW IT CAN BE TO LIVE YOUR DREAM WHILST STUCK IN YOUR DREAM. IN THE LONELY WOLF HOUR, THE NIGHT BECOMES YOUR STAGE, THE STARS YOUR AUDIENCE, THE RAIN YOUR MEMORIES.
This song. This moment of I Never Learn, one year on, gets the attention it deserves.
I saw Lykke Li's show at the Hammersmith Odeon , sorry Eventim Apollo last week.
There's a bunch of photos at The LIne Of Best Fit.
As the Independent review put it:
The audience was often left with just her silhouette dancing wildly amid the smoke-filled stage, like a gothic leather-wearing pixie. There was a dark intensity to her performance that was both disquieting and impressive.
Thomas Hannan, writing for The Line of Best Fit :
The Swede seems so consumed by the sound she concocted on her latest album I Never Learn that its bleakness infects all songs in the set, no matter what record from which they originate. And, credit to her artistic bravery, it works – even when hearing a tune as playful as early wonder “Little Bit” dressed up as the brooding beast that stands before tonight, you suspect that you could love this much bolder, scolded version just as much as the original given time.
It's an odd experience, which I first witnessed at Latitude in July and again last Thursday. Lykke is detached from the crowd, often in her own bubble, yet somehow remains engaged with us.
It's quite a thing.
I'd been warming to Lykke Li's 'I Never Learn' in the weeks leading up to the Latitude Festival.
I still wasn't prepared for how much I enjoyed her set.
An exceptional performer. I'm tempted to compare her to other artists but that would undermine her unique talent.
Finally 'getting' someone's music is a great reward.