LYKKE LI RELEASES FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM so sad so sexy OUT TODAY, JUNE 8TH VIA RCA RECORDS
ANNOUNCES “SO SAD SO SEXY” FALL NORTH AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN TOUR
WATCH LAST NIGHT’S PERFORMANCE ON LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT HERE
COVER ART + PRESS PHOTO HERE
(New York – June 8, 2018) Today, Los Angeles based, Swedish vocalist, producer, and songwriter Lykke Li releases her critically acclaimed fourth studio album so sad so sexy via RCA Records. so sad so sexy is available now across all digital service providers: http://smarturl.it/LLSoSadSoSexy.
The release of the album will be celebrated with the “so sad so sexy” fall tour, presented by YOLA Mezcal, that will run throughout major cities in North America and Europe including New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris, and more. The tour will kick off on October 5 in Washington, D.C. with general on-sale tickets becoming available in the UK on Wednesday, June 13 at 9am UK/10am CET and on Friday, June 15 at 10am local time here. In anticipation for her tour, Lykke Li has performed on several festivals outside of the US, including last month’s BBC’s Biggest Weekend Festival in Belfast, All Points East in London, and will be performing at Osheaga in Montreal, Lollapalooza, and more. See full tour dates below or visit lykkeli.com for complete schedule.
Prior to release, Lykke revealed multiple tracks including the album’s lead single “deep end,” followed by “hard rain,” “utopia,” “two nights feat Aminé,” and “sex money feelings die.” Lykke Li released two highly seductive videos, one for single “deep end” shot entirely on an iPhone, and released part two of that love story with the cinematic video for album track “hard rain” directed by Anton Tammi. She also shared a video crafted with personal home videos for “utopia.”
FADER praised her return as “one of the most anticipated pop releases this year” and Rolling Stone called “hard rain” a “mesmerizing ballad” while Pitchfork stated the song had “inventive sonic choices around every corner.” Early reviews for the album claim so sad so sexy is “a superb reinvention of Lykke Li” (Consequence of Sound).
so sad so sexy was produced by Lykke Li and Malay (Lorde, Frank Ocean) with collaborators Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Bruno Mars, Rihanna), Rostam (Solange Knowles, HAIM), Illangelo (The Weeknd), Jonny Coffer (Beyonce, Naughty Boy, Sam Smith), DJ Dahi (BANKS, Ty Dolla $ign), T-Minus (Kendrick Lamar, Drake), Skrillex and Emile Haynie (Eminem, Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa). Songs were written mainly by Lykke with her main co-writer Ilsey Juber (Beyonce, Drake, Kanye, Majid Jordan).
Lykke performed lead single “deep end” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night accompanied by the Harlem Choir. Watch it HERE.
STREAM/BUY so sad so sexy: http://smarturl.it/LLSoSadSoSexy
Watch “deep end”: http://smarturl.it/Deep_End
Watch “hard rain”: http://smarturl.it/Hard_Rain
Listen to “two nights”: http://smarturl.it/twonights
Listen to “sex money feelings die”: http://smarturl.it/SMFD
Watch “utopia”: http://smarturl.it/utopiavid
Watch “deep end” Performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmGgJb5ikoM
Press raves for Lykke Li:
“…one of the most anticipated pop releases this year…the tracks are, indeed, very sad and very sexy” – Fader
“High Priestess of cool pop” – Noisey
“so sad so sexy is a superb reinvention of Lykke Li” – Consequence of Sound
“Lykke Li has always found her own path through pop music. She is and isn’t a part of that landscape, instead dancing along its edges where the grass grows wild.” – NPR
“…we’re in store for a mad ride and potentially an album of the summer…so sad so sexy hints at both a transformation, and a culmination of the Lykke Li sound we’ve come to know and love: ever-surprising whimsicality, divine overflowing synths, playful beats, devastating lyricism…” – Paper Magazine
“dramatic new direction” – Billboard
“…lush vocals and lyrics… a mesmerizing ballad [‘hard rain’] filled with subtle synth lines and unexpected vocal flourishes” – Rolling Stone
“…inventive sonic choices around every corner. …It’s a futuristic quiet storm, and there’s no shelter” – Pitchfork
“…Lykke Li has always been something of an ingenue: a little dark, a little mysterious, a little hidden behind layers of feelings in emo-pop that thrums with raw insecurity… [‘deep end’] an arresting mashup of her flexible voice over a trilling rap beat and a gentle, memorable melody…. intoxicating” – Time Magazine
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FALL 2018 NORTH AMERICAN SO SAD SO SEXY TOUR DATES:
10/5 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre
10/7 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
10/8 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
10/9 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
10/11 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
10/12 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
10/16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
10/17 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
10/18 – Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery
10/20 – Seattle, WA – Showbox At The Market
10/21 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
EUROPEAN SO SAD SO SEXY TOUR DATES:
11/4 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
11/5 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
11/6 – Paris, FR – Bataclan
11/8 – Berlin, DE – Astra Kuturhau