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| Youth Novels | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lykke Li
Label: ATLANTIC / ADA
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1356
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512707
UPC: 825646946457
EAN: 8256469464576
ASIN: B001B92EBC
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Melodies & Desires - Lykke Li, Yttling, Bjorn | | • | Dance, Dance, Dance - Lykke Li, Yttling, Bjorn | | • | I'm Good, I'm Gone - Lykke Li, Yttling, Bjorn | | • | Let It Fall - Lykke Li, Yttling, Bjorn | | • | My Love - Lykke Li, Yttling, Bjorn | | • | Tonight - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Little Bit - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Hanging High - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | This Trumpet in My Head - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Complaint Department - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Breaking It Up - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Everybody But Me - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Time Flies - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke | | • | Window Blues - Lykke Li, Li, Lykke |
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Product Description
Sweden's Lykke Li presents one of the most perfect pop albums you'll hear all year. Just as her music sometimes seems to have arrived from another planet, she's not quite like anyone you've met before.
Album Description
2008 debut album from the Swedish Pop sensation. Lykke is a name on every one's lips right now, having released an EP that featured the radio hit 'Just A Little Bit'. Now signed to the Swedish indie giants Dolores (I'm from Barcelona, Pacific, Caesars, Loney, Dear, etc.), she is about to take the world by storm with Youth Novel, produced by Bj"rn Yttling (Peter Bjorn & John) in New York.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Scandinavisku Pop Sem Singur April 29, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Peter Bjorn and John influence... true. But Lykke Li transcends what they were influenced by. There is just something about this Scandi-Pop, if you pardon me, that sings every time. Lykke Li is right there in with the whole Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish pop thing. I don't know what it is, but isn't it easy to know that this is Scandinavian Pop? It's unmistakable!
Now hey, everyone blends everything. Can you hear Tegan and Sarah in the vocals? Emiliana Torrini? Morcheeba? It's easy to see for me; it's really nice.
This album is slightly uneven, but the first half (six songs) has stand-out tunes (please concentrate on these!!). Tracks 7 through 9 seem a bit of a miss. Then track 10, "Breaking It Up", through 12 are pretty good.
This is an "Agaetis Byrjun" (excellent start).
Steve
 Atmospheric Pop from Norway!! July 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Lykke Li is Sweden's latest Pop export and she's gotten the inevitable comparisons to fellow Nordic Pop stars Robyn and Annie, but in truth, her style is miles different from those two. 22 years old she may be, but her music is far ahead of her years, even her arty cover photo sets her apart from those two.
Her debut "Youth novels" is produced by Bjoern Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and Lasse Marten, it is rather experimental and dreamy, fitting her light airy vocals to a tee.
In an album awash in brilliance, standouts include "Dance dance dance" (tapped percussion and strummed percussion, a squidgy Sax solo building to a nice choir finale), the sunny "I'm good, I'm gone" (with a killer chorus and lovely keyboard flourishes), the acoustic/Pop "Let it fall", the lilting Jazz/Folk "Little Bit" (which wouldn't sound out of place on a Kings of Convenience CD), the stark yet astonishingly beautiful ballad "Hanging high", the acoustic spoken largely instrumental "This trumpet in my head" (of course daintily adorned with trumpet playing), the buzzing Bjoerk-like "Complaint department", the hand clap-filled Jazzy/Synth number "Breaking it up", and the brooding, almost hymnal closing number "Window blues" (with haunting harmonies).
This album is incredibly clever pop music with a great attention to detail. If only all Pop music could be this intelligent. I think we'll be hearing a lot more of Ms. Li in the near future.
Great Album! September 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since the introduction itunes I have found that my attention span in listening to whole albums is on the short side. Come to think of it, I don't think that I have bought a CD in its entirety in a couple of years!! I love this album! Great to listen to... Great style and energy!
 Awful November 4, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
This CD was not for me. Not my era~ I think if you are over 20, you'll hate it.
Top class tuneful album November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ignore the person who says this is not for over 20's, I am late 30's and love this album. It is full of great tunes, very catchy with strong beats. It is best described as electronic pop, but I think it will strongly appeal to some Hip Hop heads too. It is from Sweden but lyrics are in English.
Buy it!!!
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