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Remember that bit in the ‘Wuthering Heights’ video where Kate Bush just appears out of a puff of smoke and starts leaping about in an orgy of screechy high notes and interpretive dance manoeuvr... Read more

Twenty-one-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li Timotej Zachrisson, or Lykke Li for short, has been steadily building a buzz among the bloggers since late 2007, and for good reason. After al... Read more

Most people have a municipal building from their childhood which reminds them of happier and more innocent times. The Scout Hut, for example, or the village hall with the sun-faded posters about ra... Read more

Lykke Li's timbre and vocal phrasing may bear a striking resemblance to fellow Swedish pop singer Robyn, but her music is far more delicate. Rather than borrow from Europop or modern R&B, the stark... Read more

Swedish songstress delivers very promising debut Swedish songstress Lykke Li (full name Lykke Li Zachrisson) is making waves all over the shop at the minute. On listening to this, her debut r... Read more

Maddy CostaThere are introverted teenage girls who will long to be Lykke Li, and men of all ages who will ache to sweep her up in their arms and protect her. She's that kind of singer: cutesy, coy,... Read more

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Just what is it about Sweden that marks it down as Europe's centre of pop excellence? This is a nation that seemingly tosses out tunes with an almost casual brilliance while others struggle to grap... Read more

Sweden has found a niche for itself as the backroom of modern pop. Its production teams provide the engineers for global Top 40 sounds; in men like Jens Lekman and Johan Agebjörn it produces theori... Read more

In what is basically the pop equivalent of the force-midichlorians dilemma, leftfield sensibilities flirting with the mainstream more often than not trip up on their own theorising, viz Santogoldâ€... Read more