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08/17/08 Lowlands Festival Biddinghuizen
Discography
08/25/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café (SOLD OUT) 08/28/08 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (SOLD OUT) 08/28/08 Richards on Richards Vancouver, BC 09/05/08 Bestival Isle Of Wight 09/19/08 Razzmatazz Barcelona 09/20/08 Moby Dick Madrid 09/22/08 AB Club Brussels 09/23/08 Nouveau Casino Paris 09/24/08 Paradiso (Upstairs) Amsterdam 09/26/08 Roter Salon Berlin 09/27/08 Ubel & Gefährlich (Reeperbahn Festival) Hamberg 09/29/08 The Plug Sheffield 10/01/08 Scala London 10/02/08 Concorde 2 Brighton 10/05/08 Glee Club Birmingham 10/06/08 Thekla Bristol 10/08/08 Academy 2 Liverpool 10/09/08 Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh 10/10/08 The Duchess York 10/19/08 Washington, DC @ Black Cat 10/20/08 Music Hall of Williamsburg NY 10/23/08 Boston, MA @ Paradise 10/24/08 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club 10/25/08 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle 10/28/08 Vancouver, BC @ Richards on Richards 10/29/08 Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s 10/30/08 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir 11/01/08 San Francisco, CA @ Independent 11/03/08 El Rey Los Angeles, CA
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I've finally set up my mobile phone for twitter and was mobloggoing that:
Listening to new lykke li cd in my car, track 3 is awesome! Waiting for concert it wont start until 630. Might hangout at cheapo
08/16/08 5:36PM from txt
I still hate Twitter, it's always notoriously always down, but I'm beginning to understand that you can use it as quick messages (despite the fact that I don't think anyone actually read other people's tweets, especially if someone is constantly twittering). I do kind of like the ability to post things via text messages, so I may look into another service - recommendations is always welcomed.
Anyway, the concert I was referring to was for Kansas City's Making Movies, a band that sings in both English and Spanish. They played at this tiny coffeehouse called The Beat Coffee in Uptown in Minneapolis. The maximum capacity is probably less than 100 persons.
I spent the better part of Saturday listening to Youth Novels from Sweden's Lykki Li, who I'm previously smitten with. "Track 3" is "I'm Good, I'm Gone", which is possibly the best song on the album. Now, I've heard this song before, via a live rendition of it, but I have never heard the studio version until last night. I have to say this is such a great song. Words cannot describe this song, you don't even need to understand the melodies or words to realize that this song is telling you to burst out dancing.
The disc for Youth Novels will be out in stores on August 19th from her label, LL Recordings. It looks like, from research that there will be a standard jewel cased version and a limited digipack version. Since I don't have either retail versions (often we're only given promo versions which are sometime CD-R), I still will blindly recommend getting the digipack version.
What's nice about the the US release is that it features two additional tracks from her Swedish version: "Tonight" and "Everybody But Me". Both songs were previously available elsewhere, particularly "Tonight" was a free download off her 'space while "Everybody But Me" previously appeared on her Little Bit EP (in fact, all four songs off her EP is on Youth Novels).
In keeping with her novel theme, each song, are called "Chapters", beginning with the introduction chapter "Melodies & Desires". This is a spoken word song, with the emphasis on love and harmony and music: "You be the rhythm, I'll be the beat."
The love & music is followed by the "Dance, Dance, Dance" song that people seem to really love. Again, I still think she sounds very Bjork on this song, the minimum music set to her frail voice. I especially enjoy the trumpet in this song that seems to talk back to her.
Unrelated, I did think of T.Rex's "Cosmic Dancer", a song about a guy who was dancing before he was born. In the some ways, the subject of Lykke Li's song is about a woman who didn't know she was really a dancer all along.
In the next few weeks, be sure to see her on her upcoming North American tour. Already, I just got word that her LA and NY shows are sold out. See her in an intimate setting so you can clearly see her doing her crazy dance.... Youth Novels is out this Tuesday!
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