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Bedroom Experiments

Beat / „Eyeye“ seems like an antithesis to all the polished pop albums that the market spits out week after week. Was it a conscious approach to make a kind of anti-album?

Lykke / I had the idea already before the pandemic. I was lying in my bed listening to voice memos I had recorded. While doing that, I thought I wanted to make something that was just as intimate and raw. It was going to be an album I made for myself, for my 19-year-old self. I didn‘t want to worry about anything other than making it feel right.

Beat / Where do you see the biggest differences to your previous productions?

On the one hand it was quite different from the last time, but on the other hand it was quite similar, because in my early days I also produced music like that, alone in my bedroom with an 8-track recorder. Then, when I met Björn, it was just the two

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