I was looking over concert listings last weekend and noticed that Lykke Li (with El Perro Del Mar and Anna Ternheim) was coming to the Mod Club on Sunday. Fortunately for me, tickets weren’t sold out so Peter and I went.

I found out about Lykke Li on a music blog I subscribe to. She’s a female Swedish pop artist with a high-ish voice, and one of several Scandinavian pop singers who I have started to hear about in recent years (see also: Annie). I’ve put Little Bit on my latest compilation CD and have been enjoying that song, but I didn’t know much about the other two artists; although I did burn the latest El Perro Del Mar and listened to it in the car this week: it’s slow and moody and not really that interesting to me.

Since Lykke Li only has one CD (not even, in North American she’s only released an EP), her set was pretty short and I actually remembered set list. She came in with Melodies Desires in the background and immediately started with Dance Dance Dance, followed by Let It Fall. Then El Perro Del Mar came out to do a duet for My. This was followed by an energetic combo of three songs to end, Little Bit, Breaking It Up and I’m Good, I’m Gone. She also came out for an encore, doing Tonight, which you can download for free on her website (check under Secret Chapter). I video’d Little Bit, although the sound quality is ass. I need to find some way to limit the pickup of the mic.

Of all her songs, I like I’m Good, I’m Gone the best. It has a really catchy and driving beat — best played at high volume; which makes this acoustic/minimalist version of the song even more cool and cute:

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