Lykke Li Announces Sixth Album, Shares New Single ‘Lucky Again’
The Afterparty is Lykke Li’s first album since 2022’s EYEEYE.
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Swedish creative Lykke Li returns in 2026 with her long-awaited sixth studio album, The Afterparty. Set for release Friday 8 May via Neon Gold Records/Futures (pre-order/pre-save here), the album arrives four years after Li’s critically acclaimed EYEEYE.
Described in press material as “a confrontation with mortality, hedonism, and impermanence”, The Afterparty features nine tracks and runs just 24 minutes, making it Li’s shortest album.
Written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra, the album cover features Li’s face warped by translucent tights. “I find that we’re in an era where everyone is talking about, ‘My higher self’, Fuck that,” Li says. “This is an album dealing with your lower self: your need for revenge, your shame, despair, all of it.”
Not only has Li announced her new album, but the singer-songwriter has also shared the new single ‘Lucky Again’. A euphoric disco pop number with a Max Richter ‘Four Seasons’ sample, Li shares, “To me it’s samsara in a song. The wheel of life; winning, losing, living, dying. Having had something and praying you’ll have it again. Whether it’s sex, money, vitality, love. I always said I wanted the Vivaldi song at my wedding or funeral but I think this is giving more revenge heist energy.”
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Making a name for herself in 2008 with the release of her debut studio album Youth Novels, Lykke Li has gone on to achieve worldwide success
She’s released four more critically beloved records – Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So Sexy (2018) and EYEEYE (2022) – and established herself as a unique voice in the world of modern pop music.
Ahead of the release of The Afterparty, Li is performing at Coachella before a run of shows in South America and Europe, including opening for Robyn on her upcoming Sexistential World Tour.
‘Lucky Again’ by Lykke Li is out now. Listen here. The Afterparty is out Friday 8 May via Neon Gold Records/Futures. Pre-order/pre-save here. Check out the album cover and tracklisting below.
The Afterparty
Not Gon Cry
Happy Now
Lucky Again
Famous Last Words
Future Fear
So Happy I Could Die
Sick Of Love
Knife In The Heart
Euphoria
