Album Review: Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

In the video for ‘Get Some’, the first single from sophomore album Wounded Rhymes, Lykke Li is dancing around akin (but not as expertly as) to Beyonce, in a get-up equally as revealing pronouncing her sexual proclivities amidst a whirlwind of cascading capes and monotonic, tribal, kaleidoscopic overlays. This song, and the album more generally is a coming-of-age tome: both as an artist - she is undoubtedly going to be the latest in a sea of female singer-songwriters to cross over to the mainstream – and as a person, she is declaring herself (for lack of a better phrase) all woman.

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