Stream: Lykke Li, ‘Deep End’ and ‘Hard Rain’

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Lykke Li (photo by Chloe Le Drezen)

Ten years after Swedish pop artist Lykke Li‘s debut “Youth Novels,” she is living in Los Angeles, where she’s developed a taste for West Coast treasures, like the glorious nectar derived from agave plants (she co-owns a mezcal brand) and hip hop beats, as evidenced by two tracks shared today from her fourth album, “So Sad So Sexy,” to be released June 8 by RCA Records. “Deep End,” produced by Jeff Bhasker, Malay and T-Minus, and “Hard Rain,” produced by Rostam, each incorporate drum machine sequences in gentle ways that compliment Lykke’s lilting vocal with a nice head-nodding propulsion. She does a little bit of rapping herself on “Hard Rain,” and elsewhere on the album she brings in Portland rapper Aminé for a guest appearance on a song called “Two Nights.” So far, it’s sounding like “So Sad So Sexy” will soundtrack quite a few summertime make-out sessions.

||| Stream: “Deep End”

||| Also: Stream “Hard Rain”