Miss Li - I Heard Of A Girl

music tends to have a very pessimistic view on it’s world. everything used to be better in the past. and owning really old records is mostly higher regarded than owning old wine. and no matter how old your oldest record is. the music of the year before was more candid, more honest.
i think my oldest record is “meet the supremes” by the supremes on tamla motown fron 1965. i do like it. i also like the early marvelettes and the ronettes. but i wouldn’t like to miss some more recent records as well.
then there is the trace of fatalism that all music is already composed and today’s artist are doomed to remixes and rearrangements of the existing sounds. and after the absolute deconstruction of music by genres like industrial or drone there seems to be no niche left to occupy. but as the technology progresses the means to produce music progress, too and by this the sound will ultimately change and even if the music structures repeat the songs will be new. and drone is not just a replication of industrial.
miss li comes into this “replication of the past” in two ways. first she is not the only miss li from sweden and the voice and some songs are not to dissimilar to lykke li’s songs. but where lykke li loses herself in ethereal sounds and susurration miss li here intersperses some ragtime and jazz. and yes, that’s the other way. her fourth album “dancing the whole way home” comes with a very swedish indie skeletal structure and a little jazz as garnish.

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