so sad so sexy
| Lykke Li
so sad so sexy
So Sad So Sexy(stylized in lowercase lettering) is the fourth studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li, released on 8 June 2018 by RCA. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Deep End", "Hard Rain", "Utopia", "Sex Money Feelings Die" and "Two Nights" featuring Amin . Ilsey Juber co-wrote the majority of the album, which is musically influenced by trap. Malayserved as an executive producer, with further production by Li's husband Jeff Bhasker, T-Minus, DJ Dahi, Illangelo, Emile Haynie, Jonny Coffer, Kid Harpoon and Rostam Batmanglij, among others.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
On so sad, her traumas are too often muted by abstraction and unspecificity.
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Spin
Remains True to Form on So Sad, So Sexy
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COS
The album is full of memorable hooks and sleek production.
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Rolling Stone
Things pick up in the last third
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Slant
More melodramatic than melancholic
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The Gaurdian
A sense of bittersweet happiness and streamlined sadness flows through its 10 tracks.
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Variety
The songs have more drive and a more fluid energy; they swing rather than march.
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High Snobiety
There’s a darker energy on this album that wasn’t present before.
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Refinery 29
Gloriously Tragic
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Drowned in Sound
So Sad So Sexy quickly switches your brain off.
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Crack
60s pop with a touch of sleazy euro electro to produce something alluring.
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Uproxx
The sadness makes good things that much more vibrant
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Independant
She once again proves that there’s no such thing as boring in her music.
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Clash music
It can stand toe-to-toe with the best of them
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The Young Folks
The Swedish singer trades innocence and curiosity, for commercialized hip hop ballads, devoid of any life.
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The 405
Until then at least we’ve got some weird and catchy tracks to make do with.
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DIY Magazine
This time it’s a more pop-oriented, highly produced one.
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Spill Magazine
Many of the tracks on the album are shockingly honest
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Diandra Reviews it All
Sounds like a conglomerate of what makes a modern, music hit. But then…… the lyrics hit.
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Under the Radar
The consistency remains throughout the album.
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Music OMH
Li was the artist you could dance to with tears in your eyes.
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The Arts Desk
a very clear vision here, which constantly pulls her back from the generic, or from sounding like anyone else
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Pretty Much Amazing
Sadness, your girl really does love you.
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Immortal Reviews
The record doesn't have many highs, but its a continuously hypnotizing experience all the way through
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Poud and Quiet
A wholesale reinvention that, however overdue, Lykke Li wears very well.
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MU Muse
Night Drive Through Depression & Dope Beats
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We Plug Good Music
A combination of sorrow and beauty.
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High Clouds
It's different but cohesive, stays true to Lykke Li's emotive style
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Crytic Rock
Not a bad collection at all, it just may leave something to be desired.
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Exclaim
It feels like the perfect followup
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Metro
It is indeed both sad and sexy
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Treblezine
Not yet rich enough to be engulfing, no longer tender enough to sit as close to unaccompanied
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Brig News
An album that stays true to her characteristic melancholic sound, while giving it in an added dimensions of sensuality.
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Thunderplugs
Barely a 2 out of 5 Bananas, earplugs required after about three songs in!
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QRO Magazine
Virtually every song is both heartbreaking and sensual.
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Musike Express
Inexplicably wistful reverberation. That too is a pity, if not a loss.
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Gig Soup Music
Her most vulnerable state as an artist starting her own re-invention.
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Glide Magazine
Li’s most upbeat, most digital, and most poppy album to date.
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A Bit of Pop Music
She successfully put a contemporary twist on her own sound
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Renowned for Sound
As a work of contemporary pop, So Sad So Sexy is exemplary in its regression
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Popmusik
The Queen of Sadness is back and gives the drama-pop
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The Musical Hype
She keeps things short and sweet.
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The Skinny
it's frustratingly complacent after two outstanding albums
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Spex
The voice of a mature, self-determined songwriter, and that reverberates the longest.
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930 Club
The cleverest and most heartbreaking declarations on an album that is full of Li’s typically raw lyricism.
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Richer Sounds
An endeavour that suffers from its obsession with the sombre, yet still worth a listen
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XPress Mag
For anyone who just loves a good dose of heartbreak, you won’t be left high and dry
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The Student Playlist
Feeling like she's diluted herself to conform to the sound of modern pop.
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Hot New Hip hop
A complex and emotional exercise in minimalist pop.
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Flood Magazine
That rarest of musical entities, one who wears her darkness in absolute earnest
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Earthings
It feels like we’re being treated to retreads
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Secret Meeting
Sad, yes. Sexy, not really.
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Mystic Sons
probably the closest thing we have heard that conveys her broad spectrum when it comes to songwriting.
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Specrtum
A very light 5/10 and only recommended to the die hard fans, at best
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Riff
Lean meditations on erotic melancholy that thrill musically and marks an exciting new direction
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The Grizzle Review
Rarely has tragedy sounded so good.
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MXDWN
Her vulnerability, though shadowed by trap-like beats at points, is heard and swallowed up by the listener’s ears.
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Stars and Scars
This isn’t turn-up music but rather turn down music of the highest order.
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Read Dork
Establishing herself as a whole new force on modern pop, it makes her undeniably exciting.
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Press Play OK
In fairness, Lykke Li does the best with the production she’s been given.
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Aftonbladet
It's more exciting to go with the more you listen.
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Indie Style
A record that indeed sounds both sexy and melancholic.
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Dagbladet
A sparkling pop album, even though it's not as overwhelming as its predecessors.
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Aural Fixation
she makes it clear that she has swam to the surface of her turmoil and can breathe easy once again.
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Music headquarter
Taking a big step into a radio-friendly and pop-heavy future.
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The Quietus
If you don't feel something while it's playing, well then you know what you're made of.
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Stereoboard
Right now, it feels like a missed opportunity.
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Laut
The use of voice effects makes sense here - because it uses it sparingly and remains focused on the structure of the song.
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Irish Times
Dripping in self-pity, the kind you might need to selfishly experience before snapping out of it.
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