Because the lovely ethereal Swedish darling of the moment,
Lykke Li, is appearing at the Admiral. AMAZING! We're especially excited cos she was top of our list of artists to try to get over this year, and DF concerts have done the dirty work for us. So woo! :)
I've posted a few songs on the site, and if that doesn't convince you to come along, perhaps this effusive praise by the Guardian's Paul Lester will do the trick:
No 258: Lykke Li
Today, Paul Lester introduces a singer who does hushed and breathy, ethereal and distracted over lo-fi electronic melodies that sound at once perky and morose, upbeat and mournful
Thursday January 17, 2008
guardian.co.uk
Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden.
The lineup: Lykke Zahrisson (vocals) plus a band when she plays live.
The background: It seems like only two days ago that we were in Stockholm, and after a one-day stopover in London we've gone back there. Because it's rife - RIFE, we tell you, it rhymes with life, strife and the Knife - with great bands. We're also making our second reference of the week to 80s cutie icon Clare Grogan, for some people the high priestess of helium-high warbles. Because Lykke Li (Chinese for "maybe"), a 21-year-old Swede born Lykke Zahrisson, is positively Groganesque (Scottish for "goddess-like"). While all around her are women singing soulful and deep, Li hiccups and squeaks, with such sweet sadness, like there's no tomorrow, about yesterday's regrets and today's sorrows. Not for her the raspy knowing bellow of the New Dustys; instead she does hushed and breathy, ethereal and distracted, more licklegurl lost than lovelorn lady, over lo-fi electronic melodies that sound at once perky and morose, upbeat and mournful.
Little Bit, her new single, is so instantly addictive it is already causing blog aggro about its dovetailing of the irritating and irresistible, the cute and, well, crap. It is also being talked about as this year's Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John, that other pretty ditty that induced total devotion or homicidal loathing. Li is, in fact, produced by Bjorn Yttling of said trio, they're her top friends on her MySpace and she was the one singing the girl part on their big hit at their CMJ show last year. Little Bit, from the label that brought us Kate Nash and Late Of The Pier, could be an even bigger hit, but it's so perfectly formed and uncannily lovely it almost seems like a novelty, a bit Joe Le Taxi, as though it's an unrepeatable flukey one-off. Either way, Johnny Depp will love it, and love her.
Actually there is more, much more, to Li, who grew up on a mountaintop in Portugal with only her hippie parents and cassette of Madonna's Immaculate Collection for company, than Little Bit. Tracks such as I'm Good I'm Gone, Everybody But Me and Tonight suggest her forthcoming album Youth Novels will be a minor classic of budget, bedsit, neon-pink gloomdisco. Meanwhile, check out the adorably awkward dance moves in the video to the single, in which Li looks like a deflated Jordan or, as someone put it, "a less stabby Fiona Apple". Oh, and she plays at the Hoxton Bar & Grill Moshi Moshi night on January 31. Of course she does.
The buzz: "Lykke Li will be huge. Like, it's not even a question. She's a blog-birthed Kylie, or like Robyn only younger, hotter and better."
The truth: You'll be polarised by this poptronic sugar babe.
Most likely to: Appear in the Swedish remake of Gregory's Girl.
Least likely to: Go on a chicken-in-a-basket package tour of '00s Swedish bands in 2020.
File next to: Sally Shapiro, Annie, Peter Bjorn and John, Clare Grogan.
What to buy: Little Bit is released by Moshi Moshi Singles on February 18, with the debut album Youth Novels to follow in the spring.