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Today I'd like to give a tip about one of undoubtfully best tunes of this year that surpisingly hasn't got any proper release.
I'm talking about one of Viktorious' tracks - "Unrequited Love" presented during Viktorious weekends company earlier this spring.
Awesome disco-track sampling Yazoo's "Don't Go" has turned to pop-goodies we absolutely didn't expect from Sugarplum Fairy star if you asked us about like year ago.
Track wasn't included to "Best of Viktorious Weekends" compilation but we still enjoy it a lot with some other songs we'll probably tell you about later waiting for Viktorious' new stuff.

I guess rainy lazy day like this is the most right to talk about new Lykke Li's album "Wounded Rhymes". I've already told you about this long-awaited work and not only by us as it has made its respectable debut at #2 of Swedish chart and still is in Top-10.
It's hard to call "Wounded Rhymes" just album, compilation of music tracks, it's definitely something much bigger, it feels like a whole world, world created by Lykke, world where the sun never rises and seems like there's no place for hope. Or actually there is? In this ghost world where Lykke sounds like another lost soul wandering around scorched wastelands and abandoned bars her voice feels like the only real hope if she realizes it or not.
"Wounded Rhymes" is probably the most original and inspiring work I heard this year. Mix of dark Tarantino-vibes and melancholic retro-jazz atmosphere lit by gentle pop-tunes sung by soft and relaxed Lykke's vocal feels like something completely unique and really precious these days when commercial pop-music desperately looks for new niches and ways to grow. Lykke doesn't seem to care about it, she just closes herself in her own world but leaves doors open for everyone who will want to come and get lost with her.