You don't have to suffer for your art… but sometimes it helps. Lykke Li travelled through Heartbreak Hell to make her third album, I Never Learn, a fact that's abundantly clear on the minimal, cutting Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone. On No Rest For The Wicked, Li single-handedly resurrects the power ballad as a form of pure, redemptive energy, drawing on deep gulfs of emotion without self-indulgence. I Never Learn is a transcendent work that will remain a high water mark for Li whichever river she follows hereafter.
