“The official party line is that Lykke Li has attempted to capture the R&B-tinged sad-pop zeitgeist (think Lorde, think Sampha) on her fourth album ‘So Sad So Sexy’. However, having honed her slick and sultry Nordic noir for over a decade – breaking hearts before The Weeknd and Lana Del Rey had even brushed the airwaves – you could argue that Lykke Li was the OG sad-pop millennial. It was the star”
“The chief concern when this fourth full-length from Lykke Li was announced was that she might’ve slipped into self-parody. After all, if Childish Gambino derived his stage name from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator, then ‘so sad so sexy’ could just as easily have been derived from an algorithm that spits out song titles for the Swede. Actually, though, the main surprise on this album is less the chan”
“With festival-ready hooks and trap-inspired production, Lykke Li delivers another record about an unraveling romance and the fraught sexuality of its final moments with diminishing returns.”
“On her new record, Lykke Li's trademark knife-edge feels blunt”
