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"  Yesterday was Lykke Li&amp;#039;s 28th birthday. It was also the day that the Swedish singer, whose &amp;quot;A Little Bit&amp;quot; dominated our iPods back in 2008, released &amp;quot;No Rest for the Wicked,&amp;quot; which really just feels like a birthday present for the rest of us. It&amp;#039;s her first single in three years, and it&amp;#039;s so, so good.      It definitely marks the start of a brilliant comeback\u2014not that Lykke Li ever had a tragic fall or anything. She just tumbled out of our minds a bit, as early generation iPods were replaced with Siri-ized iPhones and their playlists of Robyn, Tegan and Sara, and Haim. Those artists and their shake-your-shoulders-on-your-morning-commute songs were similar enough to fill the void Lykke Li left, sure. But they could never quite match that ethereal quality her music has\u2014that sound that&amp;#039;s sort of like Madonna being backed up by a band of pixies\u2014which &amp;quot;No Rest for the Wicked&amp;quot; brings back in full force. I&amp;#039;ve already watched the video eight times, despite the fact that nothing happens and it&amp;#039;s really just a decaying flower filmed in 360-degree rotation, sort of like the rose losing its petals in Beauty and the Beast. I&amp;#039;m entranced by it though, just like I am with these short little Instagram videos Lykke Li uploaded last night:        A video posted by Lykke Li (@lykkeli) on Mar 18, 2014 at 3:55pm PDT     (She&amp;#039;s the one on the far right, wearing something that looks like a really good ear cuff situation.) It&amp;#039;s weird\u2014like, why am I savoring these little morsels of sound when I have the whole loaf of bread in the YouTube video? But while I&amp;#039;m rolling my eyes at myself for wanting to say they&amp;#039;re beautiful in a &amp;quot;raw&amp;quot; way, you know what? They are.         DAMN INSTA GIVE US A FEW MORE SECONDS A video posted by Lykke Li (@lykkeli) on Mar 18, 2014 at 6:54pm PDT     They&amp;#039;re awesome, as is the fact that Lykke Li posted all the &amp;quot;No Rest for the Wicked&amp;quot; lyrics on her Instagram, too, because I was totally going to Google them immediately. (If I&amp;#039;m doomed to get a song super stuck in my head, I need to get the words right from the get-go, or I&amp;#039;m a goner. Right?)         IT NEVER ENDS BABY. A photo posted by Lykke Li (@lykkeli) on Mar 18, 2014 at 2:30pm PDT     Lykke Li&amp;#039;s new album, I Never Learn, comes out May 5. NOT SOON ENOUGH. Photos: Courtesy of Instagram Related: Lykke Li&amp;#039;s Acne&amp;#039;s New Spokesperson Related: Lykke Li Designs for &amp;amp;amp; Other Stories "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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