Lykke Li’s final album is coming this spring. The Afterparty lands via Neon Gold Records/Futures on May 8, and a Max Richter-sampling lead single, “Lucky Again,” is out now. You can listen to that, and peruse a full tracklist, below.
The Swedish singer’s new record marks her first LP since 2022’s EYEYE. She recorded The Afterparty in Stockholm with a 17-piece orchestra and what she describes, in a press statement, as “apocalyptic bongos.”
“I find that we’re in an era where everyone is talking about, ‘My higher self.’ Fuck that,” Li added. “This is an album dealing with your lower self: your need for revenge, your shame, despair, all of it.”
During a recent listening party in Los Angeles, Li noted that the new project “is my sixth album, and maybe my final.” The star’s representatives have since confirmed to Pitchfork that Afterparty will indeed be her last.
To support the record, Li has lined up a series of live performances, including a London show with Wolf Alice and a Mexico City show with Robyn. She’ll also perform at both weekends of Coachella this April. Check out her full itinerary below.
Revisit Carrie Battan’s 2014 profile of the singer, Lykke Li: Better Off Alone.
Additional reporting by Alex Suskind.
The Afterparty:
01 Not Gon Cry
02 Happy Now
03 Lucky Again
04 Famous Last Words
05 Future Fear
06 So Happy I Could Die
07 Sick Of Love
08 Knife In The Heart
09 Euphoria
Lykke Li:
04-10 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
04-17 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
05-22 Vivo Rio – Rio de Janeiro
05-24 Parque Ibirapuera – São Paulo
06-19 Metronome Festival – Prague
07-05 Finsbury Park – London^
07-10 Pohoda Festival – Slovakia (Headline)
09-19 Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*
* with Robyn
^with Wolf Alice
