Lykke Li, 'Little Bit EP' (LL)
Maybe not the next "Young Folks", but closer than most.
By Matthew Perpetua 05.29.08 4:33 PM
Lykke Li's timbre and vocal phrasing may bear a striking resemblance to fellow Swedish pop singer Robyn, but her music is far more delicate. Rather than borrow from Europop or modern R&B, the stark, minimalist tunes on Li's debut EP (produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John) are built upon the clack and clang of acoustic percussion and little else, aside from occasional bits of guitar or saxophone. The songs sound exceptionally intimate, to the point where it's easy to feel voyeuristic when listening on the title cut to her unguarded declaration of love.
leaky cauldron's single is not new but it is definitely still bewitching. and much like hermione in the first harry potter, lykke's music will surely grow more buxom, less bushy-haired, and blossom into an exceptionally beautiful, well-proportioned, genre-blurring, thickly-accented masterpiece. no one wants to be the next "young folks" because it gets terrible covers of it (see dawn landes and the kooks). "little bit" is so heartfelt it would send argus filch, the squib, into tears and maybe even his cat, miss norris.