Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes

4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]er guiding spirit seems to be Phil Spector, and she laces the music with booming percussion and girl-group-style romantic melodrama."
"'Unrequited Love,' a sort of Spector-ish torch song, with its lightly strummed guitar and girl-group shoowop-shoowas, is one of the year's saddest, prettiest moments."
Ranked #10 in Spin's 'The Top 40 Albums Of 2011' -- "On tribal stompers, groovy psychedelic tunes, and Wall of Sound symphonies zooted on Ambien, she plays soothsayer, temptress, and Ronette."
"WOUNDED is hungry, dark, dirty....It's futile to deny her." -- Grade: A
Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Top 10 Albums Of 2011' -- "With enough doomed romance to make the Shangri-La's cry, Lykke Li captures the sadness of unrequited love..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sublimely spooked alt.folk lament 'I Know Places' reveals an eccentric and original talent..."
Billboard (p.36) - "Sonically it's a super-charged take on the girl-group sound, with thundering drums, multilayered vocals, heart-wrenching lyrics and loads of echo..."