Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "Her guiding spirit seems to be Phil Spector, and she laces the music with booming percussion and girl-group-style romantic melodrama.", Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Top 10 Albums Of 2011' -- "With enough doomed romance to make the Shangri-La's cry, Lykke Li captures the sadness of unrequited love...", "'Unrequited Love,' a sort of Spector-ish torch song, with its lightly strummed guitar and girl-group shoowop-shoowas, is one of the year's saddest, prettiest moments.", "Wounded Is Hungry, Dark, Dirty....It's Futile to Deny Her." -- Grade: a, 4 stars out of 5 -- "The sublimely spooked alt.folk lament 'I Know Places' reveals an eccentric and original talent...", Ranked #10 in Spin's 'The Top 40 Albums Of 2011' -- "On tribal stompers, groovy psychedelic tunes, and Wall of Sound symphonies zooted on Ambien, she plays soothsayer, temptress, and Ronette.", "Sonically it's a super-charged take on the girl-group sound, with thundering drums, multilayered vocals, heart-wrenching lyrics and loads of echo..."
