1. I Never Learn

2. No Rest For The Wicked

3. Just Like A Dream

4. Silver Line

5. Gunshot

6. Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone

7. Never Gonna Love Again

8. Heart Of Steel

9. Sleeping Alone

 

Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li (AKA Li Lykke Timotej Svensson Zachrisson) releases her third studio album entitled I Never Learn. The follow up to 2011’s critically-acclaimed Wounded Rhymes is available through LL Recordings / Atlantic Records.

 

Co-produced by long-time collaborator Björn Yttling, Greg Kurstin and for the first time by Lykke herself, I Never Learn is the third and final part in a trilogy. Taking inspiration from her LA surroundings where much of the record was recorded, Lykke commented, "Every song on the album is a power ballad. Like one of those old radio stations. This is a slow dance; a slow burner." 

 

With song titles like "Never Gonna Love Again", "Sleeping Alone" and "Heart of Steel", I Never Learn was inspired by heartbreak and Lykke’s songwriting is all the more devastating for it. One of the lead tracks "No Rest For The Wicked" is key to the whole album. "I wrote it in Sweden when I was packing up my stuff, and I’d just gotten out of a relationship and it was a horrible time. I just had the hurt, shame, sadness, guilt, longing. In the verse, I’m referring to myself pleading guilty but I’m referring to all of us."