Wounded Rhymes (10th Anniversary Edition)
Lykke Li
LPA
- Youth Knows No Pain
- I Follow Rivers
- Love out of Lust
- Unrequited Love
- Get Some
LPB
- Rich Kids Blues
- Sadness Is A Blessing
- I Know Places
- Jerome
- Silent My Song
LPC
- Youth Knows No Pain (The Lost Sessions)
- Jerome (The Lost Sessions)
- I Follow Rivers (The Lost Sessions)
LPD
- I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix)
- I Follow Rivers (Tyler, The Creator Remix)
LA-based, vocalist, producer, and songwriter Lykke Li announces the 10th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue of her seminal album Wounded Rhymes. The digital deluxe reissue is out this Friday, July 16th with the vinyl reissue out Friday, October 15th. The reissue features unreleased demo versions of “Youth Knows No Pain,” “Jerome,” “I Follow Rivers” and for the first time ever on DSPs a remix of “I Follow Rivers” by Tyler, the Creator.
The critically acclaimed album was produced by Bjorn Yttling and named one of the Best Albums of 2011 by The New York Times, Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Clash, Paste, SPIN, and more. The album yielded singles “I Follow Rivers,” “Get Some,” “Sadness is a Blessing,” and “Youth Knows No Pain.”
Praise of Wounded Rhymes
Pitchfork writer Stephen M. Deusner viewed Wounded Rhymes as "an album of stark, scintillating contrasts: between fantasy and reality, between the powerful and the vulnerable, between the brash and the quiet, between the rhythmic and the melodic."
PopMatters described it as "a dark record, borne of lost love and youthful frustrations, more suited in tone to the frozen lake country than the haze of sunny SoCal. It means this is a seriously heavy and seriously excellent album."
Sean Fennessey of Spin stated that the album is "equal parts seething ice princess and lonely snowwoman, vacillating almost track by track between fury and despondence over a scotched relationship", adding that "the dual objectives—weep for me, fear me—collide throughout, creating a dicey, but gripping album."
Rolling Stone critic Jody Rosen asserted “Lykke Li is a different kind of Swedish wunderkind: an ingenious oddball.”
AV Club critic Chris Martins expressed, “At her core, this new snarling, burned Lykke Li is unfamiliar, perhaps even to herself, but it’s to our benefit. We get to meet her all over again.”
