Eyeye may be more of the same from Li, but as a distillation of her music to date, and a final confrontation with heartbreak, it’s flawless. Amid the last cathartic tears, she’s looking herself directly in the eye.

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At times, the more upbeat tracks are missed, but Lykke has said that, as she gets older, she’s more interested in being authentic than writing hits. The result is a deeply personal and cohesively haunting record, one that pushes vulnerability to its limit, revealing the power of art to purge even the bitterest heartbreak.

The Scandi pioneer strips things back for her moody and cinematic fifth album, an evocative mood piece that conjures a kaleidoscopic revery.

The compositions are airy and gorgeous, the rough recording adding textures deep in the mix.

Swedish singer-songwriter’s fifth album is a dreamy, audio-visual experience.

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With simple yet elegant writing, Li connects songs together with simple strings and transforms malaise into a realized experience.

At this point, getting a collection of optimistic dance-pop anthems from Lykke Li seems about as plausible as Radiohead suddenly dropping an album of Cole Porter covers.

Lykke Li’s intimate, ghostly fifth album takes a stripped-down approach to the all-too-familiar devastation of heartbreak.

The Swedish singer-songwriter’s fifth album is her sparest and most unadorned effort to date.

While this album’s relentlessly downbeat nature may put some people off, the Swede’s restless willingness to experiment is to be admired.

EYEYE feels like a piece of magician’s silk that just keeps going and going, but it’s still the same piece of silk. Unlike Wounded Rhymes, this is not an album to put on at a party, but if you’re going through any kind of heartbreak, plug yourself into this immersive and impressive album and let it all out.

It finds its voice through an ever more personal lens, one that dials down the familiar ignitable fare in favour of intricate ambient spread.

Billed as the final definitive statement on the LA-based Swedish torch singer's perennial obsession with doomed love, EYEYE also has an alluringly experimental feel, from its palindromic title to its immersive lo-fi soundworld of ambient buzz, tape hiss and analogue throb.

These are pretty songs, but largely forgettable when amassed together, and though EYEYE is an honorable attempt at switching lanes yet again after a divisive fourth album, it mostly comes up short as a finished product.

Ultimately, while there are a few moments that are undeniably hypnotic, the album as a whole feels just slightly less full in scope and vision than her previous bodies of work.

Moments of stark beauty are fleeting on a very slow, very sad album.

Lykke Li's fifth album is a sad, nocturnal affair that evokes long, listless car journeys looking for a motel to crash in.

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Davibitt1234

3 anos após a artista ter anunciado sua pausa na carreira, Lykke Li volta à música com 'EYEYE', contudo, seu comeback é fraco, decepcionante e esquecível, trazendo um álbum pouco interessante em que o ouvinte se pergunta como que a mesma pessoa que já fez no passado discos fascinantes como 'I Never Learn' e 'Wounded Rhymes' agora está lançando canções tão sem sal como as vistas aqui.

Essa não é a ... read more

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The AUDACITY to end this with 3 minutes of ambient noise when this album is already so short.

Unfortunately, this is another underwhelming record from Lykke. There are a few moments that I really love, like the beautiful wild synthesizer progressions of "Carousel" or the chugging of "Over," but the lack of development that plagues her previous two albums continues to be the biggest fault here. Sonically, this is the album I thought I Never Learn was going to be based on ... read more

boyofmilkyway

I'm confused right now, I really didn't enjoy this one at all, and I do like Li's music. I just think 'Eyeye' is lukewarm since the first track... To be honest this is a pretty forgettable album, it doesn't bring too much to the game. It has only eight tracks, but it's so boring that it's like I listened the same album three times.

(+) "NO HOTEL", "HAPPY HURTS".

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rara2018

Wholly underwhelming. I’ve been a fan of Lykke Li for ages now, and this is unfortunately my least favorite by a mile. I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like this a whole lot from the get go, but I held out hope this would be another So Sad So Sexy situation where I would just get it since I’m older. Unfortunately, it was not. My favorite track was 5D with its smooth vocals. Not an album I can see myself revisiting soon.

<3 Highway to Your Heart, 5D

chaterrimo

(2022) Lykke Li - EYEYE:
01. "No Hotel" (8/10)
02. "You Don't Go Away" (7/10)
03. "Highway To Your Heart" (8/10)
04. "Happy Hurts" (7/10)
05. "Carousel" (6/10)
06. "5D" (6/10)
07. "Over" (5/10)
08. "Ü&I" (6/10)

Prós: Têm "No Hotel" e "Highway To Your Heart".
Contras: Encheram tanto a coitada só por causa dos traps do "So Sad So Sexy / Still Sad Still Sexy" ... read more