Lykke Li

Right now the singer Lykke Li takes up 10 positions in the Hype Machine Top 50 tracks making her without a doubt the hottest internet blog musician of past three days...not exactly a ringing endorsement but let's see what the hubbub is about:

Lykke Li is Lykke Li Zachrisson, a Swede with a new album called Youth Novels which is produced [and co-written, by the way] by Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John fame. I missed out on her debut EP Little Bit until recently and here are two tracks from that [these two also appear on the full length album].

Lykke Li -- Little Bit

Lykke Li -- Dance, Dance, Dance

New Peter Bjorn and John Album Details

Filter has a news article with details on an upcoming P B & J album called Seaside Rock. I'm not sure what is more disturbing, the error the article makes about the history of Peter Bjorn and John or the details about the album itself.

First off, Filter calls Seaside Rock a "highly anticipated sophomore album." The Seaside Rock record would be the groups 4th album [their first album was self-titled, then Falling Out, then the famous Writer's Block, and now Seaside Rock.]

The article goes on to say that the new album will only be available in vinyl with digital download codes accompanying each vinyl version. Furthermore, the album was intended to be an instrumental record that now has monologues about each band member's hometown. Yikes.

Peter Bjorn & John -- Paris 2006
From the Writer's Block album.

Peter Bjorn & John -- Money
From the Falling Out album.

Peter Bjorn & John -- Objects of My Affection [Live]
From the Live at the Austin City Limits Music Festival EP.

Goodbye

Overall, I think I am taking the news that Brett Favre is retiring a lot better than I took our NFC championship loss to the Giants. I am excited to see what an entire season of an Aaron Rodgers-led Packers team would look like and although I am excited, it is a good thing for Mike McCarthy that he got his contract extension this year rather than next because it might not be so pretty next year.

Supertramp -- Goodbye Stranger
From the Magnolia soundtrack.

The Moldy Peaches -- Goodbye Song
From their self-titled debut.

Peter Bjorn and John -- Goodbye, Again Or
From the Falling Out album.

Engineers -- How Do You Say Goodbye?
From their first full-lenght album Engineers.

Darnells -- Too Hurt to Cry, Too Much In Love to Say Goodbye
From a collection of Phil Spector produced songs called Phil's Spectre: A Wall of Soundalikes.

Remix Sunday

Bloc Party -- Helicopter (Whitey Remix)
From the Helicopter EP.

Clearklake -- Good Clean Fun (Nobody Remix)
From the Wonder If The Snow Will Settle EP.

Le Tigre -- Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
The original version is from the Le Tigre album.

Peter Bjorn & John -- All Those Expectations (Weak Remix)
From the bonus disk to Writer's Block.

The Futureheads -- Decent Days and Nights (Shy Child Remix)
This was a bonus track from the News & Tributes album.