Hearken to Lykke Li’s soulful cowl of Johnny Money’s ‘Ring Of Fireplace’
Lykke Li has returned along with her first new music in two years, within the type of a canopy of Johnny Money’s ‘Ring of Fireplace’ – take heed to the observe under.
The music was recorded for the soundtrack to Damsel, a Netflix darkish fantasy movie directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone and Angela Bassett.
Talking about reinterpreting Money’s 1963 single, Li informed Variety: “To be sincere, the one model I’ve ever heard in my entire life is the Johnny Money model, so I had no actual historical past. I simply went into it fairly clean. I sat down on the piano and the very first thing that got here out of my mouth was what I recorded.”
The music was written by June Carter Money and Merle Kilgore and first recorded by June’s sister Anita Carter. Li has spoken concerning the particular affect that she has taken from the data that it was Money’s accomplice that penned the observe.
“I used to be very impressed by June Carter,” she defined. “What I learn was that she wrote this once they have been each married to different individuals and she or he was like, shit, I’m about to fall in love and it’s going to explode and spoil my life. But in addition there’s no different approach.”
“So there’s this haunting high quality that it’s to fall in love. It truly is like moving into a hoop of fireplace. After which I feel the great thing about the music, what I noticed too if you break it down, is that Johnny Money’s model has tempo and all of these different issues. It’s him. It may even be a lullaby. However that goes for each nice music. It’s a basic. Timeless.”
Li’s final album was 2022’s ‘Eyeye’, her fifth studio report. In a four-star evaluation, NME wrote that it was “extra of an art-pop temper piece than a house for singles” and “a report that breathes, sighs and can go away you misplaced in the identical dazed revery that these tracks have been born from”.
The artist herself referred to the report as an “try and compress a lifetime of romantic obsession and feminine fantasy right into a hyper-sensory panorama” whereas capturing “the intimacy of listening to a voice memo on a macro dose of LSD”.
Li additionally spoke shortly after its launch that she was planning on “remodeling” the album to make it “extra like an ambient, instrumental, sonic dream”.