Wounded Rhymes

Any honey flowing through Lykke Li's coy pop fully hardened on this dark and doomy follow-up to her 2008 debut album. The Swedish singer/songwriter traps the loss of youth and love in a warped wall of sound that echoes vintage girl-group pop on big, gushing torch songs like "Unrequited Love" and "Sadness Is a Blessing." But she comes into her own when harnessing her womanly power, with big, booming percussion on the tribal-esque thriller "Get Some."