Mapei Setlist
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10/01/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 10/03/14 Boston, MA @ House of Blues 10/04/14 New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall 10/06/14 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 10/08/14 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle 10/09/14 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 10/10/14-10/12/14 III Points Festival Read More
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Swedish pop singer/songwriter Lykke Li is back in the United States, touring in support of her latest album I Never Learn (LL Recordings/Atlantic Records), stopping by a very full room at First Avenue in Minneapolis, last night.
Opening up the show was Lykke Li's idol, fellow Swedish singer Mapei. Mapei was actually born in Rhode Island, but at the age of ten, she moved to Stockholm with her Swedish stepfather. She would then grow up with one foot in America and one foot in Sweden... and eventually met up with Lykke Li. Obviously the two became really good friends, and for this tour, Lykke Li personally requested Mapei to tour with her.
Mapei's very brief set included some tracks from her debut album Hey Hey (Downtown Records), which was released last Tuesday, September 23rd, but also throwing in a cover of OutKast's "Prototype".
My favorite song from her set was "Believe", with a very infectious chorus: "Baby, when your back is against the wall, and you thought you lost it all..."
When we got a copy of Lykke Li's Little Bit EP in 2008, she was already getting buzz in America when she toured with two other strong Swedish women, El Perro Del Mar and Anna Ternheim. What drew me to Lykke Li was her amazing track, "I'm Good, I'm Gone", which I'm sad to report she did not play on this current tour. That's to be expected, she's now on her third album I Never Learn, so promoting the new material made sense.
The black drapes and cloud of fog and near-darkness lighting created this moody atmosphere. Obviously, Lykke Li is a creature of the stage wanted to create this mysterious theater of dance, body language, costumes, and, of course, music.
Majority of the set included a lot of new songs from I Never Learn (including the title track, "Just Like A Dream", "No Rest For The Wicked", "Sleeping Alone", "Gunshot", "Never Gonna Love Again", and encore "Heart Of Steel").
The older tracks from her debut Youth Novel got the biggest response from the audience... Especially hearing the first few bars of "Little Bit" got the crowd roaring with cheer. Familiar songs like "Dance, Dance, Dance" were reworked live, like the song had evolved over time.
My favorite was the Bruce Springsteen cover "I'm On Fire", even though the music didn't queue up as soon as Lykke Li announced, "I don't know about you, but I'm on fire..." Her version is, of course, a little slower and with a hint of sadness.
Speaking of sadness, there were a few tracks from 2011's Wounded Rhymes, which was probably written at a low time for Lykke Li. She confessed on stage that the album was a "real bummer," but she recognize that we all need to feel down at some point.
For the encore, Lykke Li gave us a treat with a Swedish song "Du Är Den Ende", because Minneapolis was "the best audience so far!"
I found out later that the origin of the song is based in a standard Spanish song called "Romance Anónimo" (Anonymous Romance), but re-written with lyrics as "Du Är Den Ende" (translated to English as "You are the only one") by sixties/seventies Swedish singer Lill Lindfors.
The second song on the encore was "Heart Of Steel", followed by an outro song of The Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down".
Lykke Li's album I Never Learn is out now on LL Recordings/Atlantic Records. It's good to have the Swedish singer back in the states, check out the rest of her tour with Mapei.
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Mapei
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Mapei's very brief set included some tracks from her debut album Hey Hey (Downtown Records), which was released last Tuesday, September 23rd, but also throwing in a cover of OutKast's "Prototype".
My favorite song from her set was "Believe", with a very infectious chorus: "Baby, when your back is against the wall, and you thought you lost it all..."
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Dance Dance Dance
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The black drapes and cloud of fog and near-darkness lighting created this moody atmosphere. Obviously, Lykke Li is a creature of the stage wanted to create this mysterious theater of dance, body language, costumes, and, of course, music.
Majority of the set included a lot of new songs from I Never Learn (including the title track, "Just Like A Dream", "No Rest For The Wicked", "Sleeping Alone", "Gunshot", "Never Gonna Love Again", and encore "Heart Of Steel").
The older tracks from her debut Youth Novel got the biggest response from the audience... Especially hearing the first few bars of "Little Bit" got the crowd roaring with cheer. Familiar songs like "Dance, Dance, Dance" were reworked live, like the song had evolved over time.
My favorite was the Bruce Springsteen cover "I'm On Fire", even though the music didn't queue up as soon as Lykke Li announced, "I don't know about you, but I'm on fire..." Her version is, of course, a little slower and with a hint of sadness.
Speaking of sadness, there were a few tracks from 2011's Wounded Rhymes, which was probably written at a low time for Lykke Li. She confessed on stage that the album was a "real bummer," but she recognize that we all need to feel down at some point.
For the encore, Lykke Li gave us a treat with a Swedish song "Du Är Den Ende", because Minneapolis was "the best audience so far!"
I found out later that the origin of the song is based in a standard Spanish song called "Romance Anónimo" (Anonymous Romance), but re-written with lyrics as "Du Är Den Ende" (translated to English as "You are the only one") by sixties/seventies Swedish singer Lill Lindfors.
The second song on the encore was "Heart Of Steel", followed by an outro song of The Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down".
Lykke Li's album I Never Learn is out now on LL Recordings/Atlantic Records. It's good to have the Swedish singer back in the states, check out the rest of her tour with Mapei.
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Lykke Li at First Avenue, Minneapolis (28 Sep 2014) |
