Don't let the odd, nearly-impossible-to-decipher name put you off. Lykke Li's folk rock sound has made her an indie darling in her native Sweden, and she's just beginning to edge her way into the global pop scene.
International exposure came in the form of the gloomy ballad Possibility, written and composed for the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack in 2009.
'I stayed [in Los Angeles] and watched the movie, when it only had green screen on it,' Li told MTV News in 2009. 'So it was very much like a discovery, inside myself and musically. I had this song growing inside of me that I had to get out, and [the film] was the trigger. Because I really connected with Bella and Edward's tortured love story.'
Possibility echoed the same sombre mood as the film, and legions of Twihards ate up the cryptic lyrics about love and losing it. Not surprisingly Li was, at the time, going through her own setbacks. More specifically, she was heartbroken from her 'last tango with love'.
Eager to move on from her relationship woes, Li struggled to find inspiration and the right frame of mind to write a new album. She was looking to rediscover her life and approach to music.
'I wanted to get back to the beginning, to where songs meant something,' she says. 'I wanted minimalism, just lyrics and melodies. Like all great songs, I wanted mine to really stand the test of being played with nothing but handclaps and vocals.'
