Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing

Allow the OTT arty visuals - this is a storming classic. I forsee a million covers.

I know about Lykke Li chiefly through her interesting choice of collaborations - Tyler the Creator remixed her, and she guested on a Tabi Bonney track.

I'm getting excited about her, although I don't instinctively love her voice - too thin. But her songs are dense, in a good way.

Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing

Lykke Li has the kind of reedy voice that is normally like nails on a blackboard to me, but against this lush rich instrumentation, it sounds incredibly expressive.

The lyrics are gorgeous, and the tune sounds like an old jazz standard somehow.

Since Lykke Li has the knack of sounding like the girl next door, it comes across as the most incredibly personal song - you can imagine this pale Swedish girl standing up in a karaoke bar in New York, and pelting out this standard in her thin little voice, drink in her hand and tears in her eyes.

She's got an immensely varied range of material on her soundcloud. Some of it sounds like revamp of Moloko, but less funky, more jazzy. She's also collaborated with interesting people - Tyler the Creator (of OFWGKTA) did an amazing, brutal, remix of Follow Rivers.

Sadness Is a Blessing by LykkeLi