Swedish pop visionary Lykke Li has released her sixth and final studio album, The Afterparty — a stunning, 24-minute dusk-to-dawn odyssey that distills the chaos of the human experience into something euphorically confrontational. Out now everywhere.
Recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string section, multiple drummers, and a full chorus of voices, The Afterparty is Lykke Li's most sonically expansive record — disco-glowing, gospel-bright, and Balearic in spirit, while lyrically plunging into shame, revenge, mortality, and the void.
"This is an album dealing with your lower self. Your need for revenge, your shame, despair… a journey through the night, hoping to find dawn—the dawn of yourself." — Lykke Li
The album unfolds as a single continuous scene — it's 4am, the music is still playing, the bodies are still moving. ABBA-esque stacked harmonies suddenly rupture into raw, unfiltered rage. Cascading disco strings collapse inward into stark intimacy. It's the sound of survival as spectacle, and it's genuinely unlike anything else in her catalog.
From the breakthrough of "I Follow Rivers" to the bleak intimacy of Wounded Rhymes and the stark emotionalism of I Never Learn, Lykke Li has always moved forward. The Afterparty doesn't just close a chapter — it burns the whole book and watches it glow.
Track List:
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
2026 Tour Dates (selected):
6/11 – Koko – London, UK
6/10 – Malahide Castle – Dublin, Ireland (w/ Nick Cave)
7/02 – Roskilde Festival – Denmark
7/05 – Finsbury Park – London (w/ Wolf Alice)
8/14 – Way Out West Festival – Sweden
8/27 – Rock en Seine Festival – Paris
9/19 – Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City (w/ Robyn)