Lykke Li’s ‘I Never Learn’ Celebrates Ten Years With Vinyl Reissue
Lykke Li’s critically-acclaimed 2014 album I Never Learn is being reissued on vinyl to celebrate its 10th anniversary. To be released on 15 November, a bonus track Midnight Shining (produced & co-written by Greg Kurstin) is being released digitally today and you can hear it below.
The I Never Learn vinyl will be reissued as a gorgeous heavyweight 180-gram deluxe anniversary edition, featuring the original artwork reprinted with elegant packaging.
I Never Learn was her third album followed the release of Youth Novels in 2008 and Wounded Rhymes in 2011. This was the final instalment in a trilogy chronicling, as Li told NME “a woman in her twenties and her search for love and herself”.
The album was met with critical acclaim with Clash calling it “tender and compelling”, Rolling Stone said “If Lykke Li keeps refining her voice, she’ll soon rank as an A-list pop heart-crusher” and Pitchfork noted “We’re used to breakup albums that assume you just want to crawl into a hole and die, but I Never Learn is for the times when heartbreak is so life-affirming that you want to share the feeling with the world”.
I Never Learn went on to achieve a whole host of accolades through 2014 appearing in multiple ‘Album Of The Year’ lists around the world making the top 20 for Billboard, Cosmopolitan, Consequence, Gigwise, Under The Radar and Rolling Stone.
Following the release of I Never Learn, Li took a short hiatus from making albums although she continued in her art and creativity working with artists including U2, ASAP Rocky, Robin Schulz and made her acting debut in Swedish crime film Tommy. In 2018 she released her fourth album So Sad So Sexy, again met with huge acclaim with many critics praising her progression and development as an artist. 2022’s Eyeye saw another creative step change in her music, scaled back and recorded in her bedroom with vocals done on a $70 drum mic.
Remaining ferociously creative, there are new releases and projects forthcoming from Lykke Li in the next 12 months.
Pre-order I Never Learn here.