Lykke Li has released a new single, ‘Knife in the Heart’, from her forthcoming album The Afterparty. In a press release, she described it as “my brutalist nursery rhyme anthem – the emo girl in me, fully unleashed.” Check it out below.
“I had my son and his friend sing the choruses because the juxtaposition of their voices against the EBow just created such a powerful sonic landscape, somewhere I’ve never really been before,” Li added. “A world totally collapsing in front of us and all we really have left is our humanity. My dream is to hear a whole football stadium chanting: ‘This Life This Life is a Knife in the Heart.’ To me, a pretty accurate description of what it feels like to be alive right now.”
Billed as her final album, The Afterparty is set for release on May 8. It follows 2022’s EYEYE.
