Lykke Li debuts new single “Lucky Again”

Lykke Li has returned with new single "Lucky Again"

Lykke Li has returned with new single “Lucky Again”, the song, is the lead-single off the artist’s forthcoming album THE AFTERPARTY. “I was twirling around in love addiction for all those albums,” she says. “Now I’m going into my existential era.” THE AFTERPARTY was written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm. The LP asks the question the after-hours crowd must reckon with. It’s 4am: can we have one last euphoric dance before the hangover crushes us?

Lykke Li on “Lucky Agin:”

“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.”

This time, writing from streetwise insight rather than romantic fantasy, THE AFTERPARTY is a confrontation with mortality, hedonism, and impermanence – soundtracked by disco-glowing strings, gospel brightness, and Balearic warmth, even as the lyrics fixate on loss, futility, and the search for meaning. At just 24 minutes, the album is exacting and unsparing, a study of shame, survival, and joy held together by sheer will.

On the THE AFTERPARTY cover, she is presented in striking form, her face warped by translucent tights. “I find that we’re in an era where everyone is talking about, ‘My higher self’, Fuck that. This is an album dealing with your lower self: your need for revenge, your shame, despair.”

Li released her debut Youth Novels (2008), Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So Sexy (2018), and the immersive audiovisual album EYEEYE (2022).

Lykke Li
The Afterparty
Tracklist
Virgin Records

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

Lykke Li 2026 Tour Dates

10th April – Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
17th April – Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
22nd May – Vivo Rio – Rio de Janeiro
24th May – Parque Ibirapuera – São Paulo
19th June – Metronome Festival, Prague
5th July – Finsbury Park – London^
10th July – Pohoda Festival – Slovakia (Headline)
19th September – Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*

* w/Robyn
^Wolf Alice