Reviews
"Whether she's waxing intimate and vulnerable on the echo-washed piano ballad 'Melodies & Desires,' or rocking out on the oddly new-wavish 'Breaking It Up,' Li is adding a fresh voice to a growing collective of homegrown Swedish talent...", "'Dance Dance Dance' is driven by a basic acoustic-guitar rhythm, a chugging horn section, minimal percussion and found sounds...", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Mixing adorable playground scats with spoken-word whispers and parched coos....The arrangements also dress simple tunes in surprising ways, with odd choral bits and percolating percussion webs...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "'My Love' blooms from a simple Spanish guitar into a cymbal-crashing Phil Spector grandeur, and the funereal closer, 'Window Blue,' reveals the sultry timbres of her voice.", Ranked #36 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "The steely passion is pure Lykke Li -- this is her proclamation of absolute fidelity.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The approach proves bulletproof: Her voice is mousy, the low end juicy, the melodies sketchy, the choruses huge.", "Determinedly diverse....YOUTH NOVELS marries inventive dance rhythms to confessional songwriting....With Li finding cathartic joy in the simple act of making music.", "She churns out bright electro-pop at one moment, and then turns around and pumps out tracks full of live instrumentation and delicately soulful crooning at another."