{"id":60022,"date":"2026-03-13T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/lykke-li-shares-knife-in-the-heart-her-brutalist-nursery-rhyme-anthem\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:52:28","slug":"lykke-li-shares-knife-in-the-heart-her-brutalist-nursery-rhyme-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/lykke-li-shares-knife-in-the-heart-her-brutalist-nursery-rhyme-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lykke Li Shares \u201cKnife in the Heart,\u201d Her \u201cBrutalist Nursery Rhyme Anthem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5734-lykke-li\/\">Lykke Li<\/a> has shared the latest single from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lykke-li-details-final-album-the-afterparty-shares-new-song\/\"><em>The Afterparty<\/em><\/a>. Listen to \u201cKnife in the Heart\u201d below. The song, she says in a press release, is \u201cmy brutalist nursery rhyme anthem\u2014the emo girl in me, fully unleashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Li goes on to say, \u201cI had my son and his friend sing the choruses because the juxtaposition of their voices against the EBow just created such a powerful sonic landscape, somewhere I\u2019ve never really been before. A world totally collapsing in front of us and all we really have left is our humanity. My dream is to hear a whole football stadium chanting: \u2018This Life This Life is a Knife in the Heart.\u2019 To me, a pretty accurate description of what it feels like to be alive right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish artist has billed <em>The Afterparty<\/em> as her final album, according to her representatives. It is also her first in four years, following <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lykke-li-eyeye\/\">EYEYE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lykke-li-shares-knife-in-the-heart-her-brutalist-nursery-rhyme-anthem\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lykke Li has shared the latest single from The Afterparty. Listen to \u201cKnife in the Heart\u201d below. The song, she says in a press&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}