Good things can come from even the most broken of hearts - a theory Lykke Li has proven on her latest album.
Gone is the quirky, cheeky girl who gave us Youth Novels. Gone is the slightly more reserved artist behind Wounded Rhymes. Instead, I Never Learn is delivered by a woman chin-deep in sadness and loneliness.
The Swedish singer has explained I Never Learn is the last of a trilogy of albums. And by the sound of these modern power ballads, it's clear there will be no redemption here.
From the title track, the album wraps you up in the sorrow, with unexpected walls of sound dotted throughout, what is at times, a perfectly sparse soundscape.
While No Rest For The Wicked delivers self-flagellating lines like "I let my true love down, I had his heart but I broke it every time", and the haunting Love Me Like I'm Not Made of Stone looms with it's echoes and shadows, Gunshot is a prime example of how Li and producer Bjorn Yttling (of indie trio Peter, Bjorn and John) have retained a pop core to the album; it's just a little weary, and resigned.
