Friendly Fires. I had heard of these boys from the UK about a month ago and after listening to their music, I quickly decided I liked them. But that like turned into love when I saw them open for Lykke Li at Music Hall. Its hard not to appreciate a band that gets dressed up for shows. All four members wore collared shirts and nice shoes. Yeah, I said it. Nice shoes. Let me explain. My mom raised me to believe that if a boy had nice shoes and hands, then the rest of him would be um... nice, too.

But that aside, whats even nicer is a band whose not afraid to sully their outfits by dancing their asses off. They make sweating look almost sophisticated. Ive never seen anyone pull off a sweat-soaked dress shirt like the singer did. And their music is electro dance goodness that makes you want to get just as soaking wet.

Lykke Li. This girl is the embodiment of Swedish ghetto fabulous. The keyboardist came out alone and started playing the intro to 'Melodies and Desires,' before Lykke Li made her dramatic entrance. Armed with a stick of incense, she handed it to someone at the front of the stage. She was decked out in head to toe black (as were the the rest of the band members) and wore bling consisting of a kajillion gold necklaces and rings. Crazy-ass dancing, stomping to the beat, blowing into a gold kazoo and singing into a megaphone, she far surpassed what I already thought was the perfect album for dancing or sex. Or perhaps both--simultaneously. The beats combined with lyrics like these are conducive to such salacious activites:

"And for you I keep my legs apart /
and forget about my tainted heart..."

Yes, please.

Her covers of Vampire Weekend's 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' and Wu-Tang Clan's 'After the Laughter Comes Tears,' were brilliant. At the end of 'After the Laughter,' she said, "Its true. After the laughter comes a bad boyfriend." HA. This was the perfect segue into 'Window Blues.'

And as she jumped onto the floor and the crowd bagen to part like the Red Sea to make way for her, she exclaimed, "Im not Jesus. Dance with me!"

Her amazing set ended with A Tribe Called Quest's 'Can I Kick It.' To which the audience replied, "Yes, you can!" As she came to the closing of the song, she chanted, "Vote for Obama!," to which the audience cheered like mad, and I thought, "Yes, I will."

And this is why I  love Lykke Li more than a little bit.