Lykke Li
Talk Art

Lykke Li

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 202658 min

Robert meets Lykke Li to discuss her new album The Afterparty, collaborating with artist Monty Richthofen on the cover artwork, and her powerful, ongoing creative partnership with experimental filmmaker and director Theo Lindquist. We explore her friendship and duet with the late David Lynch, and also look back to when Lindquist, Lykke Li, and artist Nick Verstand created their immersive, hyper-sensory multimedia installation at The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition projected Lindquist's visual loops in high-resolution spatial audio to simulate a "cathedral of female romantic fantasy". We learn about the inspiration Lykke finds in the...

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Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, wherever you are in the world. I'm Robert Diament and you're listening to Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. Now today I am feeling like birth and death all at the same moment. And that contradiction is actually a description that I heard from today's guest. She actually used those very words. But it got me thinking

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about the contradictions within her work and the fact that the new album, which is called The Afterparty is very much about being alienated and introverted and very much existential. But at the same time there's an incredible humour and joy and also just a positive outlook which is somehow uniting all of us in these very dark times, which I feel like even since

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the album came out in May the world's an even more dark place. But one of the things that's given me hope is really this album. And this morning I was running to the supermarket to get my cat's food, I was listening to the record on the way. And I actually said to myself, I love this album. Like, I want everyone who hasn't heard it yet to listen to it because

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