Lykke Li has shared the most recent style of her upcoming album ‘The Afterparty’ within the type of the only ‘Knife In The Coronary heart’ – test it out beneath.
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The upcoming sixth album is ready to reach Could 8 by way of Neon Gold Data/Futures – and you may go to right here to pre-order the document. Up to now, she’s previewed the document with the maximalist pop monitor ‘Fortunate Once more’, and now she’s adopted it up with ‘Knife In The Coronary heart’.
That includes a droning EBow, intense orchestration, and an anthemic chant refrain, the monitor sees Lykke Li distinction introspective lyricism towards joyful sonic moments.
Talking in regards to the monitor, she stated: “That is my brutalist nursery rhyme anthem — the emo lady in me, absolutely unleashed.
“I had my son and his buddy sing the choruses as a result of the juxtaposition of their voices towards the EBow simply created such a robust sonic panorama, someplace I’ve by no means actually been earlier than,” she added.
“A world completely collapsing in entrance of us and all we actually have left is our humanity. My dream is to listen to a complete soccer stadium chanting: ‘This Life This Life is a Knife within the Coronary heart.’ To me, a reasonably correct description of what it feels prefer to be alive proper now.”
The document comes because the long-awaited follow-up to 2022’s ‘EYEYE’, and is ready to deal with heavier themes than ever earlier than. These will see the singer lean away from romantic fantasy, and as a substitute confront the motif of mortality, hedonism, and impermanence.
The quilt for the document sees Li’s face warped by translucent tights, and she or he defined: “I discover that we’re in an period the place everyone seems to be speaking about ‘My greater self’, Fuck that. That is an album coping with your decrease self: your want for revenge, your disgrace, despair.”
See the brand new cowl and a tracklist, beneath.
The ‘Afterparty’ tracklist is:
‘Not Gon Cry’
‘Joyful Now’
Fortunate Once more’
‘Well-known Final Phrases’
‘Future Concern’
‘So Joyful I Might Die’
‘Sick Of Love’
‘Knife In The Coronary heart’
‘Euphoria’
‘EYEYE’, was given a four-star assessment from NME and praised as a “document that breathes, sighs and can go away you misplaced in the identical dazed reverie that these tracks had been born from.”
Since sharing it, Li has gone on to share the anthemic standalone single ‘Midnight Shining’, put her personal spin on Johnny Money’s ‘Ring of Fireplace’, and co-written the Miley Cyrus track ‘Lovely That Manner’, which was recorded for the 2025 Pamela Anderson movie, The Final Showgirl.
She additionally shared a reimagined model of her monitor ‘Freeway to Your Coronary heart’ from ‘EYEYE’, titled ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’, and spoke to NME about how her outlook on the world was shaping her method to new materials.
As for 2026, this summer season will see the artist be part of The Final Dinner Celebration, and extra in supporting Wolf Alice at their largest headline live performance so far at London’s Finsbury Park.
