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“I feel unreliably free,’’ says Lykke Li, one of the most talked-about and critically admired musicians of her generation. “It’s been a rough couple of years and the album was so hard-core to make as well, so I feel unbelievably thankful that it’s done and that I’m still alive. I’m in love with life again.”
She is speaking of her latest album. It has been seven years since she released the track ‘Little Bit’ in 2007 that catapulted her career and made a lasting impact on her audience. ‘I Never Learn’, the final chapter in her acclaimed album trilogy following ‘Youth Novels’ and ‘Wounded Rhymes’, has been out since in May. Making the album was sort of a symbolic fight for survival. She was heartbroken and wrote her way through the chagrin. On the tracklist of the atmospheric album you’ll find titles such as ‘Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone’, ‘Sleeping Alone’ and ‘Just Like a Dream’.
Right now Lykke Li is traveling the world, on tour again. When I speak to her, a week or so after the shoot for this issue of Contributor, she is sitting at the airport in Philadelphia waiting for a flight to take her to L.A. The near future holds “mostly shows and flights and a big dose of daydreaming” and whenever she has a chance to catch her breath “it’s either in L.A. or Stockholm.”
Lykke Li was born twenty-eight years ago with a very romantic name; her middle name Timotej means Timothy-grass and Lykke luck or happiness. She was born in the south of Sweden and growing up she famously lived a nomadic life with a musician father and a musician/photographer mother who moved between Sweden, Morocco, India and a mountaintop in Portugal. Recently she told The Independent that her parents encouraged their children to do their own thing and “having that upbringing really freed me.”
Her older sister is a fashion stylist and her younger brother is also a musician. The high cheekbones seem to run in the family. With her smoky eye make-up and signature all black look Lykke Li was considered a style icon early on, whether she liked it or not. Now she has teamed up with & Other Stories (sister label of H&M) and is releasing her first clothing line that will feature ready-to-wear and accessories, this fall.
Credits
Models: Carolyn Murphy, Eva Herzigova, Malgosia Bela, Mariacarla Boscono, Natasha Poly, Maggie Rizer, Claudia Schiffer, Nadja Auermann, Stephanie Seymour, Saskia de Brauw, Tao Okamoto,Guinevere van Seenus, Karen Elson, Linda Evangelista & Naomi Campbell
Stylist: Giovanna Battaglia
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