Lykke Li has shared the nature-featuring ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’ – in addition to telling NME about new music which she described as “coping with the sense that we’re on the after-party of the world.”
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The Swedish art-pop icon launched ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’ in the present day (Thursday October 24) on streaming platforms – a reimagined model of her monitor ‘Freeway to Your Coronary heart’ from 2022 album ‘EYEYE’.
Nonetheless, this contemporary interpretation options NATURE as a credited artist. Again in April 2024, NATURE formally launched as an artist on streaming platforms as a part of Sounds Proper, a challenge co-created by Brian Eno’s local weather change and music basis Earth/%.
The initiative was designed as a approach for artists who collaborate with the sounds of our surrounding world to acknowledge the contribution nature has in creativity, and for NATURE to obtain a share of the royalty for her contribution, which fits again into her personal conservation. The scheme has already distributed funds to conservation tasks within the Tropical Andes, Colombia.
“It was very pure, it makes a whole lot of sense,” Li instructed NME of the chance to hitch the challenge. “It’s Mom Nature. It’s like principally giving again to the mom – the creator of every thing.”
NATURE – as an artist – has already had greater than 65million streams on digital platforms and collaborated with artists together with David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, AURORA, Tom Walker, V from BTS and London Grammar.
Li defined that she needed to discover a approach of crediting the sounds of crickets, birdsong and rain she used within the creation of ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’. The songwriter additionally mirrored that nature has had an enormous affect on her work – from psychedelic mushrooms to “spending all my royalties on the crops in my backyard”.
“At dwelling I’ve an enormous window – simply glass into my yard,” she stated. “Identical to attractive crops. There was a time in my life the place I used to be deeply burned out. I actually couldn’t transfer – it got here after a decade of touring, having a son, my mum handed away, a divorce… and it was cathartic, having to put in my mattress trying into this loopy backyard. It was essentially the most restful therapeutic.”
‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’ is a monitor lifted from a broader piece of labor wherein Li reimagined the music and movies from her album for a visible artwork set up titled Ü & EYEYE displayed at Los Angeles’ prestigious modern museum The Broad in late 2022.
“The complete model is sitting on my laptop computer,” she stated. “I have to launch it to the few people who find themselves in want of a mega journey. Folks can take a mushroom and revel in it and the privateness of their very own dwelling.”
After sharing her fifth studio album ‘EYEYE’ in 2022, and welcoming her second baby final yr, the Swedish indie-pop artist has spent this yr collaborating on contemporary materials with long-term producer Björn Yttling [Peter, Björn and John].
“Every time I write I all the time attempt to enter a brand new world – a brand new period,” she stated. “I do know precisely what it’s now. I’m fairly far. It’s deep, but in addition extra enjoyable than the final one.
Requested when followers might hear the songs, Li steered “most likely on the finish of subsequent yr”.
The songwriter hasn’t been dormant in 2024 – in April she launched a canopy of Johnny Money’s ‘Ring of Hearth’ for Netflix’s Damsel movie soundtrack, appeared on Summary Crimewave’s monitor ‘The Gambler’ and in September shared ‘Midnight Shining’ – a Greg Kurstin-produced monitor which didn’t make it onto her 2014 LP ‘I By no means Study’.
Now, she’s now making ready the follow-up to her fifth album, which NME described in a 4 star evaluate as “rather more of an art-pop temper piece than a house for singles.”
“‘EYEYE’ was a really introspective, introverted journey. This new work is extra extroverted, a bit impulsive and chaotic,” stated Li. “We’re [the world] in a extremely darkish place, and I don’t know if there’s any turning again? However that’s additionally very a lot the circle of life – to destruct, to die, to be reborn. I don’t know precisely the place we’re at in that cycle, however it looks as if we’re heading someplace fairly darkish.”
She added: “This album is form of like me attempting to be rock ‘n’ roll, but in addition you may hear that it’s from a really Swedish perspective.”
Lykke Li additionally took a second to salute Charli XCX’s extraordinary yr, saying the British musician’s ascent and dominance in 2024 with sixth studio album ‘Brat’ has been “mega inspiring”.
“To see a girl that’s been grinding for a very long time – it’s superb to see,” stated Li I really feel like there are a whole lot of girls on this planet who’re lastly having their moments.
“It’s one thing we speak about in Sweden. To be an artist is to by no means surrender. That’s what it’s – persevering with the grind. It may very well be in 5 years, 10 years or 100 years that you simply’ll have your huge second.”
After attending a latest North American stop-off for Charli and Troye Sivan’s The Sweat Tour, Li added: “It was such an excellent present. So refreshing. Particularly strolling there in the direction of the present seeing all of the folks of their Brat outfits. I’m like, ‘that is superb’.”
Since releasing her debut album ‘Youth Novels’ in 2008, Lykke has gone on to launch acclaimed albums together with ‘I By no means Study‘ and ‘So Unhappy, So Attractive‘,. In 2019 she collaborated with Mark Ronson on ‘Late Night time Emotions’.
